Don't Leave Me

The body of a boy, Gilberto Ballarin, is recovered by police divers from the waters of the Venetian Lagoon. Elena Zonin, deputy commissioner of the CNCPO (National Centre for Countering Child Abuse Online) believes that Gilberto has been kidnapped by a network of pedophiles that she has been trying for years to identify and defeat. She arrives in Venice to deal with this case together with Deputy Commissioner Daniele Vianello, the great love of her youth.

Angelo wakes up in a dark room. Elena gets permission to resume the investigation together with a task force created to help her solve the case and dismantle the pedophile network. They discover that Gilberto, who believed he was chatting with a girl named Sofia and convinced that he was going on a date with her, was kidnapped.

Elena goes to the family home where Angelo lived before his kidnapping and the psychologist who took care of him describes him as a strong boy despite his appearance. Elena, invited by Giulia, her childhood friend and now Danieles wife, takes part in the birthday party of their eldest son, Emilio. Without getting noticed, however, she leaves the party and goes to Rome. There she meets her son Diego, who is going through the first teenage love crisis...

While Elena, who miraculously survived the accident, is in the hospital, Daniele and his men discover where Andrea, Angelos jailer, has taken refuge. Andrea manages to escape again, seriously injuring one of the men of the task force, and he seeks refuge from what he believes, all his life, to be his Master. Meanwhile, someone has stolen all the documents he found in the orphanage from Elenas car.