In a small town in Cantabria, a young auxiliary police officer finds the body of an elderly lady who has recently passed away. The mystery lies in the fact that it is the body of Juliana Cobián, who had passed away seven years ago. Who was buried in her place, then? When Juliana’s coffin is exhumed, another woman’s body is found inside: it is Soledad’s, Juliana’s daughter that, according to all the neighbours, had left the town twenty years before. What lies behind this second death?

Candela is a judge who has just been assigned to El Hierro, the most remote island in the Canary Island archipelago. It´s not going to be easy for Candela to adapt to file in a community that, like her, has a tough character. In fact, she has been sent there as a punishment for her unorthodox behaviour. As soon as she arrives on the island, Candela has to investigate a complicated case: Fran, a young local, is found murdered on the day he was supposed to marry the daughter of Díaz, a shady businessman who soon becomes the main suspect in the crime. Candela and Diaz are on opposite sides of the law, but they have a common goal: to discover the truth about the crime. The two embark on a physical and emotional journey… a road to hell that begins in paradise.

A few months have passed since El Hierro was shaken by a series of murders. Candela Montes, an awkward judge who is beginning to get used to her particular fate, is still determined to solve the drug trafficking case involving businessman Diaz. Fearing reprisals from his former associates, Diaz refuses to collaborate with the judge, but someone sends a hitman to finish him off. Who wants to kill him? And why? Candela has to deal with this new problem while handling her day-to-day work at the courthouse. Among other matters, an unpleasant family conflict affects Candela more than any other in her career: Gaspar and Lucía have a broken marriage, a father and a mother who are fighting for the custody of Ágata and Dácil, their two daughters, without stopping to think about what is best for them or the damage they are doing to their children. The conflict will divide the island into two, with everyone on one side or the other, and will unexpectedly lead to a murder with plenty of possible suspects.

Amparo Seoane, who has been in office as mayor for far too long, the most powerful woman in the area, is murdered. Investigating the crime will become an obsession for Maite, a Civil Guard sergeant, and for Tomás, the only witness of the murder. For Maite, finding the murderer is not just a professional duty, but also a moral one, as her vocation is to protect people. For Tomás, a high-school teacher who has no dog in this fight, it is the chance, possibly his last chance, to experience a story like the ones he loved to read about… and perhaps to be able to tell it. ​ Both will open an investigation that will affect the whole town. All of them, in one way or another, were related to Amparo. Everyone had something to gain or lose by his death.

After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk. A fictional series about crime and justice with an original story and cases inspired by the chronicles of “Levante-se o Réu” (The Defendant May Rise) by the renowned Portuguese writer Rui Cardoso Martins.