Famous lawyer, Luc Germon thinks he will achieve consecration when Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, asks him to take his defense. The businessman is suspected of having acquired under questionable conditions a magnificent property on the French Riviera, Villa Caprice. Humiliated and furious at having let himself be trapped, Fontaine relies on Germon's skill to pull him out of this mess. But a strange power relationship soon sets in between the two men, in principle allies. Who will take the advantage?