Laura (Barbara DeRossi), at age 35 has abandoned her job of psychologist at the Department of Mental Health after the death of her anorexic patient. This is at great cost since she has become more closed and reclusive since. To the point when her friend Giulia Mariani (Christine Buisson), investigating judge at the Court of Milan asks her to help with a very difficult case she refuses. The case is a horrible crime where a 17 year old girl is murdered by a maniac and her 14 year old friend, Anna (Giorgia Minnella), considered dead by the murderer, has been in shock causing loss of memory and unable to communicate. If she could be somehow restored and her memory returned the killer could be captured. Laura, despite grave misgivings about her abilities, does take eventually take on the case. Approaching from both outwardly, with facts, evidence and comparisons and inwardly working with Anna, Laura uncovers a dark network of villainy using modern computer techniques.