At 48, Tom Villeneuve is finally free. Wrongly accused of the murder of his wife, Anna, he has just spent 17 years in prison. Combative, he studies law in prison and, when he is released, becomes a lawyer. In Nice, he opens his law firm, determined to find the real murderer and to defend other innocent people unjustly accused of crime. Accompanied by his new recruit, the sanguine Sigourney, Tom defends Paul, the valet of a Nice palace, accused of having murdered a rich American, to whom he offered tailor-made room services...
Patrick Andrès, an ordinary fisherman, goes to the police station to confess to the murder of a notorious drug trafficker. Tom, touched by his story, decides to defend him, to prove that he was threatened with death, like another fisherman before him. At the same time, Sigourney finds the trail of Peter Marks, Anna's ex-fiancé and Tom's rival. Could he have used his power to bring him down instead?
While she had accused him 17 years earlier, Rachel, Anna's best friend, calls on Tom to defend her husband, accused of having killed his mistress. The opportunity for the lawyer to continue to dig his own investigation, helped by Sigourney and their new recruit, Simon, a very helpful but slightly awkward intern.
While preparing for the Olympics, gymnast Justine Petrini is accused of stealing Napoleon Bonaparte's death mask from the Masséna Museum, leaving a collateral victim... Tom doesn't believe she's capable of murder, she could be his daughter, Zoé, with whom the lawyer is gradually reconnecting! Resourceful, Sigourney tracks down Salvatore de Santis, Anna's brother, one of the last people to have seen her alive...
Peters Marks is found asphyxiated in his car and Tom is the last person to have seen him! Helped by Sigourney and Simon, he must prove his innocence. But the lawyer gets involved in a new case to defend Nour Samaan, an employee on a yacht and accused of having murdered her insistent employer, Vadim Dimitrov...
The body of Noémie Glassman, a famous soprano, is found at the Nice Opera. Her murderer seems to have been found: Jojo, the owner of the palace and Tom's friend, discovered the victim and left her DNA in the dressing room. Could it be a set-up? Tom, Sigourney and Simon investigate but they have other worries. A hitman is chasing Tom. Time is running out, he must prove his innocence in the Peter Marks case, before he gets murdered! Zoé comes to his aid by diving back into her mother's files...
