Alan Freiss, a French legal expert, is called to Viterbo by the judge Pascutti to examine the project to acquire the Rexocart paper mill by Luca Staderini. For Alain it is a dive into the past, he and Luca have been friends for years and are happy to see each other again. But not everything goes well. Arrived in Viterbo, Alain knows Gloria, Luca's girlfriend and between the two shoots the spark and fall madly in love. His expertise, favorable to the project of his friend, is mysteriously tampered with and Luca, desperate for the double betrayal of the one he considered a friend, kills himself. Luca's father, the mafia boss Mariani is far from Viterbo, is in voluntary exile in Ireland and from there he pronounces the most terrible sentences. Following the eye-to-eye code, every Alain's male child will have to be killed. Gloria is pregnant and Alain, scared, not wanting to expose the girl to such a cruel retaliation, asks her to abort. She refuses and moves away from him. Alain finds himself having to discover the truth by himself ...