Aimée is drawn to the run-down Sentier district of Paris when a mysterious woman tells her she will find her long vanished mother there, and in her search, she learns that her mother was once a member of a notorious terrorist gang.

Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée...