After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, Zen is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. But Zen is getting restless, and as an alarming number of people are dropping dead around him, it seems just a matter of time before the mafia manage to finish the job they bungled months before on a lonely Sicilian road.