The brutal murder of an unremarkable young girl, Vanessa Ringe, shocks the inhabitants of a small Parisian street. The trail seems to lead to the owner of a nearby restaurant, and the police confidently rush along it. But Lola Jost, a retired police commissioner, is not so naive as to immediately jump at the most obvious version. Together with her friend, the eccentric American Ingrid Diesel, she begins her own investigation, which drags her into the abyss of other people's passions: love, jealousy and greed.