Pascale Vignal

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.

A young boy disappears after school. Is it a runaway? An abduction? Faced with the impotence of the police investigators, the grandfather comes to Paris and introduces himself into the world of child prostitution and drugs.

Who has never heard of pregnancy denial? This condition, often caused by miscellaneous circumstances, escapes our understanding and even science. How can the mind of a pregnant woman hide a child growing in her body?

Théo returns to the city he had left years before: Martin, with whom he was raised as a brother in a foster family, has just been arrested and accused of the rape and murder of several young women. Theo doesn't believe it.

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.