The Austrian novelist Johannes Mario Simmel is very popular in his homeland. Almost every writer's book becomes a bestseller. The novel “Only the Wind Knows the Answer” was no exception. The yacht of a famous German banker takes off. Of the passengers, by pure chance, only Angela Delpierre managed to survive. Robert Lucas, an employee of the insurance company in which this yacht is insured, goes to the scene of the crime, to Cannes, to understand the causes of the disaster. He cannot even imagine that this investigation and meeting Angela will radically change his life...