Sara: Woman in the Shadows - Official Trailer | Netflix

Sara: Woman in the Shadows - Official Trailer | Netflix
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Sara is a former member of some kind of Italian secret police. The group is charged with looking for terrorists and preventing terrorist attacks.

The story starts off with Sara's adult son getting hit & killed  by a car while crossing the street. Sara has been estranged from her son since she ran off to be with her boss. Now, 20 or 30 years later, her boss is dead, she is retired, and she's curious, so she starts looking into his death. She works with an ambitious regular police detective (Prado), the woman (Teresa) who replaced her boss with the secret police and with her dead son's wife (Viola), who is eight months pregnant. The more they dig, the more odd connections they find.

Teresa has a driver who works for Tarello, a politician who is running for governor of Campania. Vigilante, a mysterious big shot, is staging street crime incidents to support Tarello, who is running a campaign of 'more security means more freedom'. Things are going well for him and then the anti-nuke campaigners start to have an impact. Vigalante doesn't like that, because, well, he's a big shot and he wants to build some nuclear power plants, and if a half dozen little people get squished, well that's no skin off his nose.

We've a got a couple of people here who are very good at picking up information in situations where any normal person would be at a complete loss.

Sara is a lip-reader extrodinaire. She can watch people having a conversation across the street and she can tell you what they are saying. It's not just lip reading though, it's more like whole-body reading, she picks up clues from the way they are standing and the way they move. It's pretty extraordinary what she is able to pick up. If I ran into someone who claimed they were able to do this, I would be very skeptical. Then again there are all kinds of people running around loose in this world who have all kinds of amazing skills. Just spend a few minutes on YouTube. Plus it's fiction, so who knows?

A guy who was working for a big shot politician is found dead alongside a dead mechanic. The mechanic called his wife just before he died and left a message. Sara asks the blind man to listen to the recording and he tells her that the  dead man was driving down a road in the country and ran over a manhole, which happens to describe the place where he was found perfectly. The blind man used to work with Sara in the Italian secret service, and he really doesn't like Sara because Sara stole his crush  (her boss) just as he was about to reveal his feelings for him.

Hotel Garibaldi Naples Italy

Sara is staying at Hotel Garibaldi in Naples Italy. It's a real place. Sara's replacement in the Secret Service visits her there and calls the place a dump. I dunno, it had a mini-bar. Maybe all hotels, even low rent ones, have mini-bars in the rooms now?

Red herrings? There are a few, here's one:

The man who killed Sara's son is a doctor who happens to be her son's ex-girlfriend's father. The girlfriend is an officer in the Italian Air Force and is dying of cancer. The ex-girlfriend broke off with the son when she found out about the cancer. That was at least a year before the son met his wife and got married.