该剧改编自同名小说《Klin Mali》(กลิ่นมาลี) 。
It’s 2011 and we’re in Rome. The government is on the verge of collapse, the Vatican is at crisis point and the city’s squares are quite literally on fire. In the middle world, Cinaglia (Filippo Nigro) has tried to pick up where Samurai left off and, together with Badali (Emmanuele Aita), he is still managing the city’s criminal affairs, with the help of Adelaide (Paola Sotgiu) and Angelica (Carlotta Antonelli), who still head up the Anacletis, and Nadia (Federica Sabatini), who helps them to manage Ostia’s town squares.
林教授出身貧苦的礦工家庭，一路邊打架邊讀書的長大，直到國三那年意外的被分到放牛班後，面對突如其來的打擊，他逐漸放棄從小想成為詩人的夢想，畢業沒多久，開始混跡賭場黑道。23歲那年，因觸犯殺人未遂罪名而被判5年有期途刑，雖然之前逃過幾次，但終究被逮入管訓隊。只要有決心，每個人都可以改變自己的命運，在監獄的孤獨歲月讓林教授決定重拾課本，努力苦讀，從宏德補校到東吳大學英文系、密西根州立大學英美文學博士，真實的故事感動人心。
一场蓄谋已久的意外重逢，一段破镜重圆的甜蜜爱恋。
