Prosecutor Elisabeth Richard teams up with Captain Charles Jouanic to investigate the death of a hunter.

A man is murdered soon after getting out of jail. His longtime friend, a cop, sets out to find out who did it and why.

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got railroaded by the brilliant master criminal.

In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.