Terence Hill stars as Don Matteo, a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He's a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn't want to help.
A fire has broken out in the woods surrounding the village and the primary suspect is a child. And, suring a bus expedition for senior citizens, Don Matteo witnesses a crime.
During a festival, one of the men carrying the patron saint statue is bitten by a snake and falls into a coma. And, Nerino accidentally falls into what turns out to be an Etruscan tomb.
A socialite gives a party for old school friends and during the evening her husband is murdered. And, the Marshal is accused of double-crossing as he works undercover to nab some local drug traffickers.
A young woman discovers she's got leukemia, and meets a charismatic "healer" at the lab where she brings her blood tests. And, the son of a Moroccan merchant doesn't want to marry the girl his father has chosen for him.
A few weeks before her marriage, a young woman in the community is found murdered in her home, and a mentally disabled homeless man from the community says he witnessed the murder of a famous gourmet.