罗莎（玛利亚·瑞贝罗 Maria Ribeiro 饰）一晃眼已经迈入了40岁大关，在她很小的时候，父母就离婚了。如今，罗莎自己走入了婚姻，丈夫达度（保罗·维列纳 Paulo Vilhena 饰）是一名调研员，工作就是到各种各样的地方去出差，这也就意味着，家里大大小小的事情和抚养两个女儿的责任全都落在了罗莎的肩上。 为了补贴家用，罗莎在编剧工作外，还负责给卫浴陶瓷公司写广告策划案，更糟糕的是，她年迈的父亲身体出现了问题，而照顾父亲的职责又一次的要由罗莎来背负。无数的压力和麻烦让罗莎简直喘不过气来。一个家族里隐藏的秘密意外的浮出了水面，这个秘密让罗莎发誓要改变自己的生活。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.
