A restaurant co-owner and head chef is abducted. Police lieutenant Marie Balaguère and prosecutor Elisabeth Brochène have to act quickly in order to find the man. By phone, a ransom is demanded. Later in the investigation, Marie Balaguère finds the body of the abducted man. It's obvious that the man was dead from the first day and that the ransom was meant to put the police on a wrong track.
—Pascal Mercier