It is the night of September 25, 1988, a night brighter than the others: the moon is full and radiates the Road 640, to Palermo; a car is on the move when it is attacked by a commando of men who explode a lead hail at the unsuspecting passengers of the vehicle. The mangled and unrecognizable bodies belong to Antonino Saetta, aged 65, president of the first section of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Palermo, and to his son Stefano, thirty-five. Both headed to the Sicilian capital, without escort, after having participated in the baptism of a grandchild. Antonino, sentenced to death by Cosa Nostra because he was impassive to compromise but donated to the cause of Justice and Stefano, unaware martyr of a despicable reality that spares no one. From the trial of the Red Brigades, in Genoa, to another one that marks the time, that of the sinking of the merchant ship Seagull. But Nino Saetta is also the judge who issues the severe sentences against principals and killers of the massacre that struck Rocco Chinnici and the murder of the captain of the carabinieri Emanuele Basile. Therefore the mafia kills, for the first time, a judging magistrate, the most accredited to preside over the appeal of the famous Maxi trial, and, for the first time, together with a son. The same one who, that night of full moon, was found with his father's body lying on his. Perhaps, Antonino's last attempt to save his life. In the last dramatic hug.