But is it love that makes the family or the family that makes love?

Caterina, Federico's mother, is the main suspect in a case of attempted murder: a tragic news story from her adolescence inevitably links her to the victim even if she continues to declare herself innocent. Don Massimo decides to dig into the woman's past in search of the truth, while even Federico has stopped believing in his mother. Colonel Anceschi returns to Spoleto to greet his daughter Valentina and to meet her new boyfriend.