Leader Film Company

During their robbery of a nightclub, Matthias Caruana and Kyle Borg kill the son of the owner. While fleeing from the scene with an accomplice, they have a car accident. All three manage to escape from the vehicle just before it bursts into flames but the stolen money is lost in the fire. Dave McBain is at home secretly having an argument on the phone with someone. When he finishes the call, he leaves the house. Now hunted by the police, the three robbers enter McBain's house and take his wife and children, the six-year-old Thomas and sixteen-year-old Alice, as hostages. While the wound that Matthias suffered during the car accident threatens to upset the balance of power within the criminal gang, thereby allowing Kyle, the most violent of the three, to dominate. Problems begin for the hostages.

Maria Silvestri desperately tries to escape a man who is chasing her. The man is faster, he grabs her, drags her to the ground and is on top of her. Then, the darkness. Shortly afterwards two boys discover Maria's body. Leaning over her is a young man with a disturbing appearance: black clothes, disheveled hair, pale, dark-tinted lips. The boy flees but is captured shortly after, his name is Daniel Crawford. He is Maria's American cousin and for some months he had been living with the girl and her father, Bruno Silvestri.

Sebastian Brody is a profiler who works for the FBI. When his wife is killed before his eyes by a serial killer who has escaped from prison, whom he had brought to justice some time before, he leaves everything behind and moves to Sicily. One night, due to a strong storm, the electricity goes out. Sebastian goes into the shed to try to start the generator but, in the darkness, he trips over a cable on the ground, pulling down a metal shelf. He discovers a hidden niche in the wall containing a box with six female scalps inside.The scalps belong to a serial killer who killed in the area twenty-five years earlier, nicknamed "the Hairdresser" by the press. The ones found by Sebastian would be his trophies. The killer was never caught and now seems to have returned to strike.

Angela Wyler asks police chief Valerio Strada to find Christine, her twin who she hasn't heard in two years and who had a stormy relationship with the officer years back.