In a little village north of Montreal, a reclusive old woman is found strangled and frozen outside her home. Roméo LeBlanc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years, and reluctantly answers the call on the case. Roméo suspects a local biker gang is involved in what appears to be a robbery gone awry--or was the old woman a victim of a violent hate crime?