Criminals found stabbed to death in the vicinity of a French town, while according to documents they are serving time in a local prison... Brutal murders of young women in Hollywood... Violent deaths and gang violence in Maryland... Three intricate criminal plots add up to the epic story of a once successful writer whose life collapses when the criminal environment and his own cowardice take away the people closest to him. Events take place in different decades and are reproduced in the style of three great masters of the action-packed genre.