The RAI producers are worried about how the show is being received on the outside. They soon get some answers. Manzi is also worried, not so much about the show, but about his position as a teacher.

Suor Helga is good at reading Giuseppe Moscati's moods and senses something is wrong. Giuseppe knows Elena is suffering on his account but at the same time, he can't help being dedicated to his patients over everything else. He writes Elena a letter and takes it to her house.

Caravaggio is a TV mini-series based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It opens in 1577 when the painter was 5 years old. The plague had just hit and people who were still alive were burning their household possessions.

Father Costa just wants to be left alone and chases Friar Marcello away. Luigi finally has his catheter and drainage removed.

Lojacono and Aragona are able to find Bukhar and question him. Ottavia goes home with some fried rice balls, thinking they will be appreciated, but her husband criticizes her.

Imma assumed that no one had done any work all day, but Diana let her know that the staff had actually done somersaults to get the information Imma required. The next day, Imma talks to the architect's son and learns some interesting facts.

It's a difficult moment for Camilla, and there are tensions at home, which Livietta perceives quite well. Camilla talks to Detective Berardi about Dora's death.

Manzi goes before the Board of Education. Ida finds some letters in Alberto's coat pocket. Manzi explains to the board members why he finds it impossible to give his pupils grades.

Nina goes back home to get some of her things and finds Cloe. She doesn't hide her resentment, but the two women end up having a conversation. Elena is clearly stufa (fed up) with Giuseppe never having time for her and she takes action.

Some years have passed, and Michele's widowed mother has had some difficult decisions to make regarding her children. One of these is to send 12-year-old Michele to Milan to be an apprentice at the workshop of the well-known artist, Simone Peterzano. Michele has no desire to leave home and family.

Luigi spends the night tossing and turning. In the morning, a nurse comes to get him for the CT scan, but then he has to wait and wait.

After a night of intimacy, Ugo and Nora seem to have differing ideas about what it meant. Meanwhile, Iside and Dino are already basking in what they think is the aftermath.

Lojacono meets his friend Paolo for dinner and they talk about the case in which Lojacono had been falsely accused. The next day, Bukhar is questioned at headquarters.

Imma is furious about what she reads in the paper, but her boss tells her to calm down and wait for the trial. She also has to deal with a new police officer with a strong personality, but who is also quick-witted.

Camilla has to go down to the Carabinieri (police) headquarters. She tries to call Gaetano, to no avail. At the police station, she runs into the administrator of Dora's villa.