Marie-Galante island in Guadeloupe.
The party celebrating the mayor’s birthday is in full swing. Horace St. Rose’s wife Lucia and his two sons Manuel the doc and Freddy the artist, along with all his friends, are there.
Two days later, while on a trip to Paris, Lucia is kidnapped.
Horace is astonished to learn that his wife will be released only if he turns over some of the island’s terrain for the construction of an enormous building complex.
