It's the end of peak season at the French winter station Les Cimes. Vacationers leave, the snow melts, and reveals a woman's corpse in an intriguing and macabre staging.
Swiss captain Sterenn Peiry is tasked with the case and rapidly joined by French investigator Lyes Bouaouni, who investigates another case in which the victim was found in a similar staging.
Set in 1813, this show follows Tom Hardy's James Keziah Delaney who returns from Africa with 14 ill-gotten diamonds and seeking to avenge his father's death. Refusing to sell the family business to the East India Company, he sets out to build his own trade and shipping empire and finds himself playing a dangerous game with two warring nations, Britain and America.
Villefranche is a small town with no phone reception on the edge of a mysterious forest. The number of inhabitants is dwindling but there's a sharp rise in crime. Police inspector Laurène, once the victim of a crime herself, keeps on discovering fresh corpses.