When Manuel Ortigosa, a famous Parisian writer, learns of the death of his husband Aymeric in a car accident, he is totally devastated. He thought he was on a business trip to Brussels: what was he doing in the middle of the night on a back road in Provence at the time of the tragedy? Manuel goes down to Aix to identify the body, and discovers that a whole part of his husband's life was unknown to him. Aymeric had secretly taken over the winegrowing estate from his family, with whom he had claimed to have broken for years. A powerful family in the region, they will react very badly when Manuel inherits the entire Fontaresse estate. They'll do anything to get it back... With the help of Richard, a retired gendarme as surly as he is homophobic, Manuel investigates the suspicious death of her husband. Can this mismatched duo uncover the family secrets surrounding the Fontaresse estate?