Esclavos del deseo

The appearance of two unconscious and seriously injured young girls at the entrance to the Civil Hospital in Venice puts Brunetti and Griffoni on the trail of two young Venetians who could have incurred in a crime of omission of the duty of relief. They are Marcelo Vio and Filiberto Duso, two friends since childhood, very different from each other: Duso works as a lawyer for his father's firm, while Vio stopped studying as a child and makes a living working for his uncle, who has a freight transport business and a small fleet of boats. But what at first seemed like a prank by two young people who just wanted to have a good time, will uncover something much more serious: a connection with the illegal trafficking mafia in charge of bringing African immigrants to Venice. Brunetti and Griffoni will have to join forces with a new ally, Captain Ignazio Alaimo, the officer in charge of the Capitaneria di Porto, who has been tracking the smugglers for years.