Philippe Mathey

Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-hand shop...

During an investigation, private detective Marie Machiavelli discovers that the former head of a law firm embezzled several million francs belonging to Jewish clients whom he never attempted to contact after the war.

Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads.