Will Shaw is a young financial advisor to San Francisco departing for Spain, where the parents are waiting for him and his brother to spend together a boating holiday on the Costa Brava. It is not, however, envisage the holidays particularly long and serene for him, distressed by the fact that his company is on the verge of bankruptcy and that will soon have to return to work. During a trip at sea, continually distracted by calls that come from overseas, moves away from the boat to the parents regain my composure. On his return, his family seems to have disappeared, the victim of an international intrigue that comes to involve the secret services, hypothetical terrorists and double identities. When the American action film moves in a European capital, there are two places that you feel most compelled to visit: the mausoleum of Hitchcock and boulevards more narrow and winding. The principle of '"ordinary man dropped in an extraordinary" and what he sees as the intricate floor plans European theater for spectacular chases and frenetic races are the basis of The Cold Light of Day, title lyric only in appearance that actually translates to letter that sounds like an English expression "in cold blood". A state of harmony and serenity that could not be farther from the soul frantic of the protagonists of this type of stories.