Follows the employees of airlines companies who have signed a contract with AZT, an illegal medication in many countries at this moment, fearing that it will be the only solution available for diagnosis.
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned prolific author Georges Simenon, inhabits a vividly realized Paris not often seen on camera that takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal