A police lieutenant in Cayenne, the capital of his native French Guiana, Teva Royer likes to rely on his instincts to shed light on the gray areas of the cases he investigates. One day, he is sent to Nantes to investigate the suspicious death of a wealthy businessman's daughter, whose body has just been found. Once there, Teva meets Ana Kerjouan, the pragmatic judicial police captain with whom he teams up to try to solve the mystery. The pair quickly take advantage of their complementary skills and turn them into a formidable weapon for the investigation...

An anthropologist collapses in the middle of a voodoo exhibition, the result of a lifetime's work dedicated to the benefit of an unscrupulous art dealer! For Oriane, Brice Lemoine's art dealership went haywire, causing his death. But when the corpse vanishes, the intimate dimension of this murder is revealed: the victim was wanted to punish him. In this highly sensitive investigation, Téva understands that an entire family has been robbed, and that they intend to reclaim what is owed to them. At the heart of a difficult-to-penetrate voodoo community, a race against time begins: while Téva and Oriane track the stolen objects, bodies begin to pile up around Brice Lemoine's collection...