M. Pinaud, vacationing from the Surete with his family, witnesses a deliberate hit-run murder, but the small town police seems strangely, brutally uninterested. The young investigator Pinaud arranged to have sent on from Paris disappeared. So, M. Pinaud, husband, father and most correct policeman, insists on going himself to get to the bottom of a viciously corrupt town. His best since Fair Maids Missing.