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When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediarician whose skull has been fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. A Carabinieri captain and two privates from out of town have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteen-month-old son. What can have motivated such a violent assault by the police? But then Brunetti begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and an underworld in which babies can be bought for cash.