[1] Commissioner Jacovella is a hasty and decisive but fundamentally honest police officer, and sometimes indulges in unorthodox methods to carry out his job as Head of the City Mobile Squad.

Unfortunately, the car belongs to Pasquale Ragusa, brother of a respected mafia boss and blind person in the area, who was transporting some burning documents back from Rome, including a letter from a corrupt Minister in exchange for easy building permits in the city.

The boy escapes with his girlfriend to a country farm that belonged to his grandfather and now uninhabited, chased by the killers of the Ragusa boss, who intercept him near Castel del Monte and where they try to kill him.

Meanwhile Giacomo Maselli, director of the local newspaper La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, is one of the journalists who cannot stand the violent methods of the police, especially Commissioner Jacovella, discovers the identity of the policeman's killer in the robbery, collects his confession and understands his repentance and try to help him.

The boy dies in the arms of his girlfriend and under the eyes of Maselli and Jacovella but not before they have come into possession of the letter that reveals the contact between the corrupt Minister and Ragusa, a document that will allow the official to go and arrest the boss.

The newspaper, on the other hand, is cast as a obstacle to the pursuit of Jacovella's tough justice, and the Mafia is presented as politically non-aligned, unproblematic (their actions merely the product of Ragusa's evil business".

[2] Auty also commented on the acting, stating that Cobb had a "sluggish performance" while director Stelvio Massi "does what is required of him, propelling the action perfunctorily from gun battle to car chase.