Director of the department „Archeology” at the University of Marseille, Roxane Delage is contacted to realize the expertise of a Mayan mask in a villa. She is assaulted and regains consciousness half-naked in the living room, with, in a room next door, the corpse of a man! Panicked, she clears her tracks and runs away.
Hugo Combas is a policeman on probation: his doctor has just told him that his cancer left him little chance of survival …
Back home, Roxane tries to hide her panic from her husband Alexis and her 8 year old daughter, Alma. They wait to dine Ines Ortiz and his brother Pablo, longtime friends. That’s when Hugo Combas and Sabine Maupin intervene to stop him. Roxane is indicted for murder …
Quickly, all the evidence accumulates against Roxane, to the point that Alexis begins to doubt his innocence. Combas ends up causing discomfort in full hearing. Sabine Maupin, his colleague and companion, is ready to support him in his desperate fight against the disease, but Combas breaks with her to spare him …
Unable to prove her innocence, Roxane is sentenced to twelve years in prison. Unable to support visits to the parlor, she asks her family members to stop coming …
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