Largo Winch is the guest of the famous TV show "The Price of Money". Journalists ask him about globalization, buy-outs and other corporate mergers. After general considerations, they come to a specific case: Speed One, recently bought by the W Group, has just announced the dismissal of two thousand five hundred workers. Surprised to be trained on this field, Largo marks the blow. One of the journalists then makes enter the stage, Dennis Tarrant, the director of one of the four production sites of Speed One. And this is the drama. Live, in front of millions of viewers, Tarrant lodges a bullet in the head. Largo is immediately designated by a part of the press and opinion, as the responsible for the death of the desperate. It is then June, Tarrant's daughter, who accuses him. For the billionaire beau adventurer, trouble begins.