An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths… “A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man.”

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his…