Benjamin is hired to advise in the fate of a coastal wine estate after the owner's death, which the widow Angèle Marcarol wants to donate to a Catholic monastery, but the notary Coutil dies before he can execute the deed from slow poison administered over time and the monks won't be linked to such bloody scandal. Benjamin finds the widow and her confident estate manager are targeted since long. Her estranged daughter is the latest conquest of ambitious local reality show star hunk Thibault Berger, who hopes to play the lead I a biopic on Benjamin, but gets shot in a confusing incident at the estate. paramilitary police captain Paul Lescaut finds his master in Benjamin.

Benjamin leaves Silvère do all his tasting while he's invited to write an article and give wine expert advice at doc René Grimaud's rehab clinic's program from alcohol addicts. Dealing with gendarmes commandant Caubère, a police acquaintance recently transferred to this most prestigious Bordeaux region, Benjamin is first to find the long-missing MD, while one of his patients is found murdered. His lover France, whose buddy Macha implored help, joins his undercover investigation.

Benjamin Lebel is knocked unconscious and is in a coma for a couple of days. He wakes but has partial amnesia. Against the advice of his doctors and family/friends he decides to take matters into his own hands in order to find his notebook which was stolen at the time of his attack