Out with the shabby day tourists! Out with the sandal-sporting teachers! And above all: out with the remaining inhabitants of Venice. A handful of rich Italians wants to turn Venice into Disneyland for the super-rich.
The group, which invokes the legacy of the Doges of Venice, who ruled the Serenissima for centuries, is planning a subway that will run from the mainland to Venice beneath the lagoon. The plans are ready. There is only one tiny detail: the responsible politicians still have to be bribed, a task the loyal accountant Paolo Salini takes on. But when he is murdered and the bribe money disappears, Commissario Morello takes over the case, putting the long-planned project in danger. And that’s when the rich men decide that Morello has got to go…
