In a container on the Paris docks, worked by the very crew where Matthieu once worked as summer long, is found the facially defiled corpse of Raphaël Mirmont, who resigned there a month earlier. Raphael was raised by his father Jacques in permanent veneration of his late perfect mother, but he recently discovered she lives but abandoned them at birth for a career. devilishly handsome Raphael had a new fiancée almost every week, but was serious only about the latest, Noémie Bertrand, to whose brother Guillaume he became a big brother during frequent visits, yet missed …