Maître Robineau, a young lawyer, meets by chance a university friend who runs a shop. The man she had asked to do work on her store has disappeared and is discovered murdered.
On the Côte d'Azur, Maître Robineau, finds himself involved in a burglary case in which the perpetrator is accused of murder and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.
Returning to Sologne after getting rich, Jacques Moreau notices that he is not much appreciated by those around him, whether it be his niece, his former mistress, his new mistress, his so-called friends and his former youth comrades
In Pont-Aven, Patrick Leroy-Dubois a real estate agent tries to buy land by the sea. He says he is going to build chalets. In fact, he wants to concrete the coast and build buildings.
