In this gritty thriller, French film icon Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Roger Pilard, a tough mercenary who works with -- and sometimes above -- the law to bring down dangerous criminals. Pilard must track down the ruthless killer and bank robber L'Epervier (Bruno Cremer), a criminal who murders his own accomplices. With help from one of the murderer's surviving victims, Pilard begins to close in on L'Epervier, but the scheming fugitive is determined to elude him.