A lonely French woman named Madame Duval, owner of a hotel on the Cote d'Azur, was looking for her rightful heir. Vladimir Lozhkin, a man with a criminal past, responded to the request of the Parisian genealogical firm from St. Petersburg. Unraveling the situation was not easy. In the history of the ancient family, the fates of the French and Russians, who lived in different eras in Nice, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Paris, were intricately intertwined...