Commissaire Léon Duval’s investigations in his eighth case take him into the past – to the time of the Second World War and German occupation: Once a year, on the days of remembrance in November, the French polish the memorial stones on their family graves and decorate them with chrysanthemums, asters, and cyclamen. The historical Grand Jas cemetery in Cannes is no exception. But then the body of a young man is found lying in a blood-red pool on one of the graves in the Jewish section.
Duval begins to investigate and soon discovers that the young man was Jewish. Was this an anti-Semitic crime? If so, Duval’s superiors don’t want to know about it. But Duval doesn’t rule out the possibility, and his examination of the young man’s life and surroundings bring back a past that some would rather forget.
