Louise, framed for murder, sees the only solution is to pose as her twin brother who has just been assigned a job as a detective. The discovery of the body of a woman modelling for artists leads her into the decadent world of high society.
After World War II, the French colonial empire, which dominated the lives of over 110 million people on five continents, collapsed in just under a quarter century of blood and tears.
A detective series centered around a police station in a working-class suburb of a provincial French city (the St. Herblain area of Nantes, to be exact), where detached houses with kitchen gardens rub shoulders with tower blocks. There's no mafia or organized crime, just petty lawbreaking, but it keeps our cops busy. Fights that get out of hand, conjugal disputes, quarrels between neighbors, family tiffs, pick-pocketing, pilfering from building sites, minor trafficking and illegal laborers. And plenty of bodily harm, from the trivial to the extremely grievous and, at times, even fatal. Against this backdrop of everyday lawlessness, the series paints a picture of people's lives when they slip out of control, veering into the comic, the tragic or the absurd.
When German invades France, Victoire is 20 years old. The war, the child whom it awaits from Arnaud, the beneficial influence of Natacha, exiled Russian, soft and revolted at the same time, the friendship who links it in Jeannette, the love finally, will make of Victoire a combative and courageous woman. She will know passion. When, become gynaecologist, it meets Gianni, a journalist who will fight at his sides for the emancipation of the women, it will be an adult love. But Gianni, one day, will be erased by understanding that never Victoire will not cease awaiting Nicolas...