1980s. Lugano, a quiet city in the Southern part of Switzerland.
Anti-narcotics Police Commissioner Maurizio “Mao” Cavadini discovers that the world’s biggest cocaine de- aler is instrumentalizing Lugano as a key drug and money transit point. Penetrating the drug network, which has been dramatically impacting Swiss youth, is an opportunity Mao has been waiting for.
Pushed by his thirst for justice, adventure, and recognition, Mao joins forces with an idealistic young prosecu- tor and becomes the first Swiss undercover agent to infiltrate a drug trafficking cartel.
Lugano Connection is a television series inspired by the remarkable real-life events of a police operation in which the first Swiss undercover agent succeeded to infiltrate Suárez’ Bolivian cartel, its Swiss crime partners’, and a Nazi paramilitary group.
Above all, it is the story of a man who embarks on a mission worth fighting for, and about the realization that he could be his own worst enemy.