Franco Fiorvante has toiled for years on the estate of Baron Zito. Determined to secure a prosperous future with dreams of owning his own lemon grove Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the Baron. But when Baron Zito asks him to arrange the kidnapping of a little boy Franco sets in motion the making of the world's first Mafia family. Gaetano Catalano is an idealistic young lawyer and a member of the Beati Paoli a real-life secret society of aristocrats who investigate crime. The Beati Paoli set out to find the boy but for Gaetano the mission turns to obsession. The kidnapped boy Dante grows up without even knowing his last name. He doubts his own sanity until he meets Lucia a girl with a tragic past of her own. They fall in love and set out to find his true identity . . .