AMORE: Salvo Montalbano dreams that he marries Livia Burlando but things don't turn out as planned. Pasquale, the son of his housekeeper Adelina, tells the commissario that he witnessed a strange scene between an elderly couple in the building where he lives. Salvo goes to their flat and sees the same scene but in reverse order.

LA GIOSTRA DEGLI SCAMBI / A CAROUSEL OF MISTAKEN IDENTITIES: The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: intervening to break up a fight on Marinella beach he hits the wrong man, then he is mistaken for one of the aggressors and stopped by the Carabinieri. To top it all, he hears that Adelina has mistaken a gentleman for a burglar and hit him on the head with a frying pan...