Cannes, South of France. Enigmatic Englishman Patrick de Courvoisier is known as Le Limier or 'Fixer'. People come to him with their problems - and he fixes them. But when he's asked to track down Angele Valette, the mysteriously missing star of the new movie, The Black Pearl, Patrick finds he's taken on a case where nothing is as it seems.

Private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier unearths a shocking wartime secret in this stylish Cannes-based mystery series. Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier’s help in locating a valuable painting which has disappeared from the monastery’s vaults. At the same time, an old enemy from Patrick’s past has arrived in Cannes in search of a different stolen painting. As it becomes increasingly clear that the two investigations are linked, Patrick’s enquiries lead him to uncover a shocking wartime secret: a secret the British Royal family would prefer to keep hidden…