A gentleman, who likes to tell himself that he lives a life of quiet calm and resignation, gets a visit from his brother one day and mysterious things begin to happen.
A young couple decides to sail around the world, hoping to get over the death of their young son. They set off in a used sailboat, whose previous owner had a fatal accident in the Bay of Biscay.
The kidnapping of a DA's wife, the murder of several minor criminals and the police finding a large stash of weapons is all in a day's work for criminal detective Roland Hassel.
