 Maurice Chazal, co-owner of a company producing animated store mannequins, is shot dead in his workshop. Chazal was an unpleasant, greedy man and there is a good chance that it was greed that killed him - though it is up to Kommissar Bernard and Inspektor Janot to find out whether it was his own greed or someone else s. Finding the killer would be so much easier if the only witness to the murder wasn t a dumb redhead secretary - the animated puppet Chazal was working on when he died ...