Lara and Luca go into work mode automatically, to try and solve this new, upsetting case, but they each have private, unhappy thoughts that keep turning around.

A Palermo doctor is interviewed about his practice and the African and Southeast Asian immigrant patients that he treats.

By popular request, Manara is back with some new adventures. Everything is in place for a joyous celebration, with wedding bells, but is it too good to be true?

Palermo faces the sea and has a very long history of immigration. The narrator interviews a young woman whose great grandfather came to Sicily from Sudan. She is involved in educating immigrants from Africa and Asia. Pitrè was also highly involved in education.

Giuseppe Pitrè loved attending performances of chivalric folk plays in Palermo. This segment follows a marionette player at Palermo's Opera dei Pupi, the same theater where Pitrè went to see folk epics.

A beach party concludes this episode, and season. Love is in the air!

Emotions are running high in this segment and we're hoping that Lara gets found, and that she's alive.

A woman performs a traditional Sicilian ritual involving the sticking of pins into an onion, accompanied by prayers, in order to bring back the boyfriend of her suppliant.

The tension is almost unbearable for everyone. But when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

We get a taste of what life is like at police headquarters without Luca. We also see that Lara learned some bad habits from Luca, going off on her own on a hunch.

Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.

It's time for Luca to say goodbye to his colleagues and friends. It's a sad moment for everyone.

There are plenty of people—women, actually— to send Luca off on his bus, but he keeps looking around for a certain someone to show up...

Monopoly, the board game invented in the US in 1903, is used to explain monetary policies and Italy's current financial woes.

The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.