Tito and Mary meet at the airport, where he gives her his extra ticket not being aware of the fatal situation in which he will fall as a result of his kindness.

Traveling from New York to Italy, pretty Mary runs into a moody, macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for him with the gruff manners and in an impertinent ways, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.—Anonymous

The main character is a lawyer who flies to Florence from New York. He is disappointed by temporary setbacks in business, but still full of hopes for the successful completion of the next case. She is Italian on her father's side, a married cafe waitress, flying on the same route as the lawyer. The piquancy of the situation was that the lawyer had two plane tickets, although he was flying alone, and the waitress had none, since she had not ordered tickets in advance. The lawyer decided to give up the extra ticket. And so began this intrigue worth 15 billion.—Tango Papa