In the salt harvested in apparently quiet village of Gwenrann (Guérande) on Britanny's Atlantic coast, severed hands turn up. Everything points to a serial killer, somehow linked to similar events decades earlier. A task force is formed by St.Nazaire police detective Jérôme Farche, his junior partner Olivier Morel and university forensic experts Ravel and Maxime Nau. They discover curious facts from the first killings, suggesting several suspects, with clues coming even from a mental asylum. Even prosecutor Jérôme Frank plays a dark part.

Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands. What he omits to tell her is that the two hands in question belonged to a woman who murdered her own children. When unexplained incidents happen, followed by a murder in Roxana's entourage, she starts to wonder whether her new hands may be committing crimes of which she's unaware. Police Capitain Almeida, in charge of the investigation, falls in love with Roxana, but she remains the prime suspect. Is it possible that Roxana's hands are urging Roxana to do terrible things she's not even conscious of? Or is she the victim of some terrible plot?

Paul tries to prove his worth to his father. However, for that to happen, his father would have to give him at least one chance.

One night, Leonore has an affair with a man. An affair without any importance but with heavy consequences. In fact, Leonore is secretly in love with her neighbor. They meet by chance in the building. The signs of love are obvious but none of them make the first move. Obsessed by this man, Leonore doesn't realize the changes in her own body. Her body remains the same, slim, strong because of so much exercise. Months pass by and one night, Leonore feels violent contractions. She doesn't know. She doesn't understand. Nothing had prepared her for this event when the child of denial arrives.

A retelling in two parts, from 1977 to 1986, of the education and the rise to power of a group of young graduates of the prestigious ENA school.

Helpless and confused, Andrea goes back to the factory where she used to work. Clinging on her past, she tries to survive. But, the violence of reality will shatter all of her illusions