The same golden September morning the town pathologists' teenage daugher is discovered hanging off a tree in the woods above Assisi (Umbria, Italy), the high-powered planning director of Perugia narrowly escapes death in a paragliding accident. Commissario Lorenzetti senses foul play. The police department is overstretched and he asks his best friend and fellow investigator Sister Lucia to look into the suicide. But will her judgement be clouded by her own guilty secret?

This is a story about leaps - real and metaphorical, taken and not taken.