区耀祖和邓丽娟离婚后，各自在中港两地经营粤德居，多年来相安无事，直至香港特区回归廿五周年，丽娟决定回港开设分店，更为争夺粤德居品牌，不惜与耀祖对簿公堂。幼子家健参加大湾区创业比赛，遇上担任导师的兄长家谦。兄弟长期分隔两地，南辕北辙，难免磨擦，但血浓于水，加深彼此认识后，重建深厚亲情，携手研发出高科技虚拟技术，让父母重新经历廿五年来的起起跌跌，明白原来一直关心对方，二人冰释前嫌，一家四口终得以团聚。
The disappearance of Sir Julius Hanbury - and the theft of several of his erotic paintings - provide a new puzzle for Morse to solve. Assisted by DS Lewis, Morse interviews everyone at Hanbury House and it is in the course of searching the grounds that he finds Sir Julius' body, appropriately enough, in the family mausoleum. The pathologist notes that he was the victim of a frenzied attack but the lack of blood at scene leaves the police to conclude that he murdered elsewhere. Sir Julius was a candidate to become the Master of an Oxford college and was known to have a have had a bitter rivalry with another candidate for the position. When Roger Meadows, a friend of the Hanbury's au pair, is killed in a car accident, Morse concludes that that he too was murdered. Jealousy, revenge and greed all play part in the deaths.
