The threads from a mysterious murder committed in the small quiet town of Versailles stretch to Boston - and local sheriff Ben Truman goes there. But in Boston, “colleagues at work” treat the “backwoods cop” with obvious mockery, and the investigation turns into a chain of unanswered questions. Only one policeman is ready to help Ben, who knows everything about the Boston criminal world - and suspects that the “Versailles case” is connected with a series of mysterious crimes committed twenty years ago...