Couleurs de l'Incendie plot
In February 1927, the funeral of the wealthy banker Marcel Péricourt took place. His daughter Madeleine is the only heiress, after the suicide of his brother Édouard Péricourt a few years earlier. Fate befalls her when her son Paul is seriously injured and becomes disabled. Without her ex-husband to back her, Madeleine will have to take over her father's business on her own. She takes advice from her uncle, the unscrupulous Charles Péricourt. Madeleine will have to face many obstacles, the misfortune of men, greed, jealousy and corruption in a France and a Europe where totalitarianism is on the rise.