Guillaume Romain

A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family.

El cadáver de una joven es encontrado en la piscina de un hotel en Saint Paul Vence. Los investigadores de la gendarmería local descubren rápidamente que se trata de un asesinato.

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.