In 1993 we follow the young magistrate Saverio Barone while he reports his boss colluded with the mafia to the CSM and enters into contact with the DIA that may lead him to a new career. At the same time Tony Calvaruso has just been released from prison and finds a job as a driver for the boss of the Corleonese family Leoluca Bagarella.

Saverio Barone enters the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA) and because of his arrogance and ambitions is meeting with some hostilities from the more experienced magistrates of the team. He still has to prove his skills to them and to himself. In the meantime the boss Bagarella orders Brusca to keep the kidnapped Di Matteo's child alive as an hostage and force a recant to the authorities.