After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Bart Cordell
Carla Gravina
as Liza Rocquencourt
Jean Rochefort
as Le nonce (André Berthier)
Charles Denner
as David Loweinstein
Jean Desailly
as Jean-Pierre Carnavan
Jean Martin
as Mgr. Schneider
Maurice Garrel
as Brayen
Pierre Grasset
as Pierre Delmas
Maureen Kerwin
as Lauren Korey
François Chaumette
as Maître Georges Theron-Maillard
Michel Beaune
as Frédéric Lambert
Marcel Cuvelier
as Le Ministre