After testifying against her colleagues, Captain Julia Scola faces hostility from some fellow police officers as she investigates a woman's disappearance; Julia's focus is tested when her teenage love arrives as the newly appointed commissioner.
Convinced that Novak is hiding the truth about his appointment to her squad, Julia is determined to dig up everything she can on him; the tension between the commissioner and the captain intensifies while they investigate the death of a teenager.
When the only witness to the murder of a psychologist is a little girl with autism, Julia feels a personal connection to the case; the investigation brings up painful memories for Julia, drawing her closer and closer to Novak.
Novak and Julia are forced to consider the links that unite people in order to solve the double homicide and to resolve the untenable ambiguity in their own relationship.
Novak and Julia distance themselves as a manhunt is organised to find a medical student who terrorised a family; as a child, the man was haunted by the ghostly figure of a martyred girl, but he received psychiatric help and took control of his life.
Julia is unsettled when the discovery of a corpse reopens an investigation led by her own father 20 years earlier; the acrimony between Novak and Julia's father remains strong; the case echoes a terrible secret that Novak has long kept to himself.
