After the Crash

A plane crashes on the night of December 22, 1980, near the Franco-Swiss border and catches fire. Out of 169 passengers, 168 die at the scene. A three-month-old newborn girl is the amazing lone survivor. When two families—one wealthy, the other impoverished—come forward to claim her, it sets off an investigation that will take nearly twenty years to complete. Is she Emilie or Lyse-Rose?

After failing to find the truth eighteen years later, private investigator Credule Grand-Duc intends to commit suicide, but not before giving the girl an account of his research. However, as he prepares to shoot himself while sitting at his desk, he discovers a truth that alters everything. He is then murdered before he can tell anybody about it.