Police chief Paul Bellamy is vacationing at his wife Françoise’s family estate, despite her wishes to get away from it all. As an inspector with a nearly insatiable thirst for mystery, Bellamy listens when a stranger appears at his door with a wild story about a beheaded corpse, a vagabond and an unfaithful business leader. On top of that, Bellamy’s alcoholic half-brother makes an appearance, bringing with him heightened family tensions. Claude Chabrol’s final film is a Hitchcockian drama about a man, played wryly by Gérard Depardieu, reflecting on a life defined by a constant need to ask questions.