Philippe Nahon

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

Max is agoraphobic and lives in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. One night, he finds a beautiful unconscious woman (Bianca). Her body is covered with blood.

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girls grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.

When it comes to tactical target practice, nobody is better than low-profile firearms specialist Vincent Miles, who has recruitment offers lined up after winning an international shooting competition. As played by Ymanol Perset (who broke out with the Belgian drama “Le Monde nous appartient), Vincent is one of those stern-jawed, intense-stare types, vaguely robotic in his determination to be the best gun jockey on earth. For all practical purposes, he is a human killing machine, and though field ops holds no appeal for him, it’s clear that whoever succeeds in manipulating him will have a deadly weapon at their disposal.