The trickster and extorter of money from rich ladies, Julian Lucan, was made an unusual offer - to kill the wife of a millionaire, and was promised such a sum that he could not refuse. To begin with, he decided to make inquiries, and, having learned that this was not so easy to do, he hired a killer. The two of them decide to play their card. And now the woman is kidnapped, and the killer demands from the millionaire an amount much higher than the previously promised “fee.”