Le Havre, France. The city’s at war as local mobsters and petty gangsters fight over territory, while the police do their best to put an end to the drug trafficking that holds sway over town. Set on a backdrop of social misery, the cases followed by dutiful Inspector Faraday and Paul Winckler, his former partner with completely opposite methods, combine gripping realism and riveting investigations.
A man is found dead, shot in the head, in his car near a beach. The precision of the shot suggests an execution carried out by a sniper from a significant distance, leading the investigators, Faraday and Winckler, to search for a long-range shooter who is causing panic in the city.
An emergency doctor is found killed by a bullet in the back of the neck after being tortured. Shortly afterwards, the body of a former journalist is found and he had also been tortured before being drowned.
Lulu is kidnapped after the reopening of a cold case.
A fatal car crash leads to the revelation of a family man's secret.