Atmospheric, sensuous, gripping – the perfect summer thriller from Italy
Early on the morning of the third day of the festival in honor of Santu Paulu, the patron saint of the small city of Galatina in Puglia, a corpse turns up in the saint’s chapel: Nicolà Capone, the most successful young pizzica musician from the Salento region, who, just two days earlier, had given a highly acclaimed performance.
After rushing back from Milan, where he had been testifying at an anti-Mafia trial, the grumpy Commissario Cozzoli encounters Elena Eschenburg, a journalist from Hamburg who had recently moved to Puglia to start a new life. She had just spent the previous few days with the musician for a story.
Together, Cozzoli and Eschenburg begin to investigate, their inquiries taking them to picturesque cities and ancient stone villages, to Nicolà’s family and to his admirers. Met with silence, they discover that, in Puglia, some stories can only be told through music.
