A financial investor has disappeared, having cheated almost half the population of Vigàta of millions of euros.

The detective investigates when investor Emanuele Gargano disappears with the savings entrusted to him by the people of Montelusa.

His inquiries bring him into contact with the missing man's staff, including his obsessively loyal secretary Mariastella Cosentino and the provocative Michela Manganaro. Meanwhile, Augello gets cold feet about his wedding.

Salvo looks into the case, but as usual he’s distracted by tangential matters: Mimì’s love life, an olive tree someone has dared to fell on his beach, and Tunisian orphan François from the very first episode. It all adds flavour, but the segment with a deaf man and his singing parrot is hard to swallow.