As can be seen from the title, Vincenzo Malinconico is a lawyer who spends his days in a precarious manner, has to deal with few clients to assist and with cases of little importance; in short, an unsuccessful lawyer indeed. Divorced and with two children, women like him for his insecurity and clumsiness, yet he is unable to achieve a fulfilled love life. His professional career suddenly takes a turning point when he finds himself defending a Camorra butcher accused of destroying and concealing a corpse, a case that he takes to heart with all its developments and consequences. Since it is a legal drama series, a genre that focuses on judicial figures such as lawyers or judges, the police are predominantly absent, but the structure of the crime story is
not missing, since the search for clues to this crime is carried out by the lawyer Malinconico, an investigator on generis.