42-year-old famous architect Paul Cellier plunges down from the fifth floor of one of his construction sites. A man escapes after the fall and the workers try to reach him without success, but he is identified as Maxime Leroux, a rival architect envious of Cellier's fame and buildings in Kuala Lumpur and Paris, among others. Investigators open another investigation line when they learn that Cellier had argued with his partner for 16 years, Sacha Lebriand, construction manager, with whom he had a son, Jérémy, 10, and who he planned to marry with. Virginie Gaetner, mother of Jérémy, Paul's childhood friend, becomes also a suspect when Judge Nevers and Commander Marquand discover that she wanted to take the boy to live with her and her husband in Toulouse, away from his parents, and finish the joint custody they had so far.