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.
As Leo's replacement Thomas Chamberlain arrives Nikki investigates the murders of Rachel Freedman, shot in the head, and her little autistic son Nathan, who was poisoned. Nikki rejects policewoman Anne Burchett's theory that Rachel killed them both but is perturbed when an impostor, claiming to be Rachel's sister, visits the morgue. At the same time the disfigured corpse of Eva Liron is discovered, killed with the same poison as Nathan. She had been the nanny to French hot shot footballer Isaac Dreyfus and was planning to blackmail him over a sex tape of them both. Jewish Isaac is a controversial figure due to his anti-Muslim sentiments but he denies ant part in the murders. Then another victim, Isaac's agent Mousa, is discovered dead.
讲述了墨尔本市黑社会团伙1996年到2004年的真实活动，包括帮派之间的矛盾、械斗和火拼，以及由此产生的一系列谋杀案件，所使用的人名全都是真实的。根据该剧的描述，墨尔本最大的两个帮派是莫兰家族及其 "死对头" －－从家族中分裂出去 "单干" 的卡尔 威廉姆斯。Moran家族的骨乾成员包括路易斯、马克 和 杰森 莫兰，威廉姆斯家族的骨乾成员包括卡尔 威廉姆斯、托尼 莫科贝尔、安德鲁 文尼尔敏以及之后成为核心的维克多 布林卡特、蒂诺 迪布拉。此外，由阿方斯 甘吉塔诺、多梅尼克 嘉托、律师乔治 德芙特罗斯、马里奥 坎德罗组成的 "卡尔顿帮" ，以及由尼克 拉德夫领导的 "俄罗斯帮"，也是不容小觑的力量。
为了寻找消失的新娘而孤军奋斗的金度型（金武烈饰）、度型的未婚妻尹洙英（高胜熙饰）、在公和私之间矛盾万分，内柔外刚的热血刑警车允美（李诗英饰），在30岁时，终于圆满了自幼年期就梦想的警察职业。而度型对立的组织的核心人物许真基（柳承修饰）、陷入允美热情魅力的警察朴炯植（朴海俊饰），是一个想兼收事业和爱情，最终却失去了所有的悲剧性人物。
