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Au XIXe siècle, les riches créaient des fortunes et achetaient des remplaçants pour que leurs enfants ne partent pas à la guerre. Aujourd'hui, ils ont des héritiers très riches et des descendants inconnus mais qui peuvent légitimement hériter ! En 1870 l'un des fils d'une grande famille d'industriels a été un utopiste généreux et a reconnu un enfant illégitime.

Meet Patience Portefeux, 53, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. She’s laboured for 25 years to keep everyone’s heads above water.

Blanche de Rigny has always considered herself the black sheep of the family. And a black sheep on crutches at that. But it turns out her family tree has branches she didn’t even know existed. And many of them are rotten to the core. As Blanche learns more about the legacy left by her wealthy Parisian ancestors, she decides a little family tree pruning might be in order. But great wealth also brings great responsibility – a form of richesse oblige, perhaps – and Blanche has a plan to use her inheritance to cure the world of its ills.

Christophe Leibovitz-Berthier est avocat pénaliste et traîne son âme en peine de commissions d'office en dossiers minables. Déçu par son milieu professionnel, il accepte de collaborer avec un avocat sulfureux qui défend des gros truands. Mais cette collaboration fera de lui le compagnon de cellule d'un proxénète albanais... amateur de Flaubert.