A walk in the dark

No one in Bari wants to represent Martina in her efforts to bring her ex-boyfriend to trial for assault and battery.

He is a successful doctor and the son of a powerful and vindictive local judge.

Witnesses are suddenly unwilling to testify and Martina has a history of psychological problems.

Guerrieri knows this case is likely to bring his legal career to a premature and messy end.

But he cannot resist the appeal of a hopeless cause.

Nor deny his attraction to Sister Claudia, the fiercely protective young woman in charge of the shelter where Martina is living.

Sister Claudia, who usually wears a black leather jacket and jeans, shares Guerrieri's love for martial arts and his outrage at the hypocrisy and corruption revealed by the trial.