O corpo de Ciro está afundando nas águas escuras do Golfo de Nápoles. E à medida que se afunda cada vez mais, surgem memórias. Os sons abafados pela água se fundem com os gritos das pessoas que fogem. É 1980, a terra treme, o palácio desmorona, mas sob os escombros você pode ouvir o choro de um bebê recém-nascido ainda vivo. Dez anos depois, descobrimos que o bebê recém-nascido sobrevive como pode nas ruas de Nápoles, filho de ninguém. Memórias vívidas de uma educação criminal que fez dele o que ele é: Ciro Di Marzio, o Imortal.
Antonio Barracano, a man of honor distinguishing between “decent people and scoundrels” in the Neapolitan underworld, is the "Mayor of Rione Sanità". Administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the State, he is faced with a difficult decision when Rafiluccio Santaniello, the baker's son, asks him for his benediction to kill his father.
Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.
Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.
