When Julia follows her grandmother's testamentary wish to study in Padua, she unsuspectingly gets involved in the drug scene dominated by the Tre Condottiero syndicate and Fra Moriale. There, of all people, a former school friend of hers works as a drug mule and pimp under the name Colombo. Julia also gets to know Commissario Roberto Bassner, who is using the drug syndicate's raid as a pretext to avenge the death of his sister, who was murdered twenty years ago. Julia quickly and unintentionally gets caught between the fronts, with good and evil not so easy to distinguish. Then events come to a head: The mystery of Fra Moriale is finally revealed, the murder investigation takes an unexpected turn and a tender love story develops...