Giancarlo Siani was a young reporter for the Naples daily, il Mattino. He was murdered in the mid-eighties by the camorra for being too curious and too good at his job.
At the age of 22, Giancarlo starts to write for a daily newspaper from a violent and unknown city, near Naples.
His commitment to deep investigation first produces professional success, then local mafia ("camorra") powerful bosses' resolution to dispose of him