"Perez." Is a public defender. He could be a great man of the law, but fear tricked him. He always considered his lousy condition as an effective "shelter from misery". When danger creeps into his house, he discovers that it is not fatally so. Pressed by events, in a strenuous attempt to defend the life of his daughter,  he breaks every rule. And every law. Naples as a background: the unknwon and  metallic Managerial Centre: a district of high-rise buildings designed by famous architects which today reveal a broken promise of progress and prosperity, just as Perez.