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A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.

For inquisitor Jude Price, sobriety meant leaving his demons behind. But when a trail of strange disappearances leads back to his former local, he realises they've been awaiting his return.