Max Dean, free-lance songwriter and private eye with music business clients, has survived a bout with cancer and a second wife. With a gnawing desire to relax and recreate, he takes up an old client's offer of a beach house in the North of France. When an irresistible Nazi general's granddaughter hires him, and mysterious, buried booty in the sea caves of St. Malo calls, Max gets no rest. The pirate treasure hides a greater treasure whose allure...