As this Italian series opens a woman is arrested in a remote mountain town; she has been living under an assumed name. As she is questioned by the police we flash back six months...
Her husband Claudio Caruana is on the board of a bank in Rome that has been accused of corruption. One evening he tells his wife he is seeing a colleague, when in fact he is seeing his mistress... this proves very awkward when the colleague is murdered and he appears on the CCTV. Fearing he is about to be arrested he contacts a man who will help him and his wife, son and daughter disappear. They must trade their old lives in Rome for a new life in the Italian Tyrol under new names. For how long will they be able to give up their old lives? One police officer in particular is determined to find Claudio even after evidence suggesting the family died while trying to flee the country emerges.
I thought this was a solid series. The opening serves to grab the viewers' attention; we may know that one of the family has been arrested but it is far from obvious whether others have been caught and the question of how she came to be where she is is interesting. Inevitably the family get into some fairly melodramatic problems each episode which threaten to expose them. Of course such problems are needed to keep the story interesting for twelve episodes. The cast do a fine job making their characters believable and the beautiful Tyrolian scenery makes the outdoor scenes look stunning. Without giving anything away I found the ending to be solid as it nicely wraps things up without the need to set things up for unnecessary further seasons. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of Euro-drama.
These comments are based on watching the series in Italian with English subtitles.
