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Noir — English Edition
The Lost Child
Original title: Il bambino segreto
He arrived at the "Caffè del Porto" with the sun low in the sky; he didn't yet have the gun; but he had money in the Caymans, a wife with long black curls and slender feet, a child who smiled at him, and secret encounters he believed he could keep that way.
You thought your child was safe with him. You were wrong. Now he's gone, and the police is accusing your husband.
On a May morning in Palermo, Veronica asks Francesco to take their son Matteo to school. But Francesco has other plans — Svetlana, his Moldovan mistress, is waiting. When he returns, Matteo is gone. School records show he never arrived, the gates are locked, and no one knows anything.
As hours stretch into days, dark secrets surface. Veronica begins to doubt everything. Francesco can't escape the truth: his clandestine affair with Svetlana, a lover haunted by a past of abuse and human trafficking — a past that refuses to stay buried.
In the shadowy streets of Palermo, the disappearance of a child pulls a family into a labyrinth of secrets and lies. Each revelation raises more questions.
Who is Francesco, really? What is the school hiding? Who has taken his son?