The year is 1896. Bookseller and the most cunning detective in Paris, Victor Legris, makes a decision: he will no longer investigate... But when he discovers his acquaintance, a ragpicker, hanged, the desire to find the killer takes over. The day before, this lady gave him a certain object, and Victor is sure that it is somehow connected with her death, as well as the sculpture, surprisingly reminiscent of a mummy...