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