It’s April in Cannes. Commissioner Duval is expecting a visit from family and his girlfriend Annie is pregnant. That alone would be challenging enough, but then a woman dies in a bistro in Cannes under initially mysterious circumstances.
Apparently the murdered woman was a patient at a psychiatric clinic, where she was admitted after an accident involving memory loss. Duval takes on the investigation and finds himself dealing with art and artists, drugs, prostitution and bizarre yoga practicioners. To top it all, narcotics officers catch Duval’s half-brother in their net. The commissioner is torn between untangling all the threads of this intricate story and still managing to meet his family’s and Annie’s expectations.