In which the painter Joseph Rouget arrives at his uncle Jean-Jacques’s country home and is enchanted by the old master’s collection of valuable paintings, leading to a cordial but politically charged encounter with the scheming Maxence Gilet and the resourceful Flore Brazier. Amid whispered intrigues and mounting tensions, family alliances and guileful manoeuvres intertwine with a village’s keen-eyed gossip, setting the stage for a delicate struggle over inheritance and influence.