At 48, Tom Villeneuve is finally free. Wrongly accused of the murder of his wife, Anna, he has just spent 17 years in prison. Combative, he studies law in prison and, when he is released, becomes a lawyer. In Nice, he opens his law firm, determined to find the real murderer and to defend other innocent people unjustly accused of crime. Accompanied by his new recruit, the sanguine Sigourney, Tom defends Paul, the valet of a Nice palace, accused of having murdered a rich American, to whom he offered tailor-made room services...