Main witness in the disappearance of the Maertens family, Stéphane Hermant made the front page of the press ... In the fever of the race for the hearing, Raphaëlle Sauléac, reporter for the Telma Press agency, made him a star of the small screen. Only the police investigator Luc Del Monte is convinced that all are being manipulated. For him, Hermant is a "thief of life", who kills to take the place of his victims, changing his identity each time. But, to prove it, Luc Del Monte must already convince Raphaëlle that she fell into the devil's nets in person ...