Ane Armentia, investigative journalist and scourge of unscrupulous politicians and businessmen, leaves her home to meet Mario Laredo, the investigating judge in the Alondra case, a network of political corruption, but before she passes the doorway, an unknown assailant stabs her to death.
For the police it is nothing more than a robbery with violence, but Judge Laredo knows exactly what the assailant was after: the information that Armentia had been gathering and which threatens to destroy the foundations of the Catalan business fabric.
The shrewdness of the prosecutor Virginia Gibert will help Laredo to untangle a spider’s web that becomes more complicated as the investigation progresses, because there are too many people interested in keeping the truth in the shadows.
A duel of forces in which power, ambition, love and sexual attraction are at the centre of a judicial intrigue with a disturbing rhythm.