Baltasar Matzbach, according to one of his alleged friends, "a mix of Falstaff and Garfield the cat, unleashed on humanity as a hobby detective," does not want to get stuck in a convoluted case. When a cry for help reaches him from Provence, he gladly drops everything and heads south with his girlfriend Ariane. However, the journalist who had telegraphed something about "assassins" has disappeared. A robbery in Les Baux, an attack in Cassis, and druids erecting standing stones next to a writer's house – is there a connection? Matzbach uncovers it, and in one of the ironic dialogues with Ariane, he notes: "I don't know if a crime has ever been solved with the help of the I Ching, a Carthaginian will, and the omission of druidic sanctuaries, but at some point, everything happens for the first time.".