Salvatore Di Amato was a man who had it all: wealth beyond measure and power over an entire nation. But they are of no value to him, for his destiny is challenged by an illness that is driving him closer to a terrible death every day. Today a new nurse has been assigned to him, in the hope that she can penetrate the sordid layer of melancholy and self-loathing in which the former Mafia leader is mired: Amelia Weber, a refugee from the First World War.