A headless skeleton was found in a Paris wasteland. Early indications point to a never resolved disappearance, that of Yazel Brahni, eight years earlier. The main suspect was her former lover and art teacher, Ludovic Perroa never charged. Falco revived the investigation with these new elements, offering hope to understand what happened to the husband and the daughter of the disappeared. Only the setting that seemed to just stick with the provocative personality of the artist proves that he has nothing to do with it. It's not even good corpse. Falco and Knight are exceeded, especially as Falco finally traced to Ponthieux. This is the only track on the cop to understand why Ménard was forced to shoot him.

Pauline disappeared. Falco is convinced that she was abducted by Darrigade, the man who, for 25 years, made his life and that of fire Ménard hell. But Falco refuses help he would need to find her daughter ... and doubt gradually settles into the head of his friends. And if he was delirious? If everything were only a consequence of his coma? Falco is isolated and eventually interned in psychiatric hospital to finally prove that he is victim of a plot. His friends finally at his side, they investigate together to find Pauline. But before saving it will outmanoeuvre Darrigade and face one last time on his land, that of manipulation and false pretenses.