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Henri is a middle-aged travelling umbrella salesman from Saumur. One night on the roads of Brittany he hits a boar with his car. He meets Émile, a rude and carefree painter who lives in a cottage near Riec-sur-Belon.

A few hours before his third Michelin star was awarded, a renowned chef disappeared with his second chef during a hunting trip. His daughter Clara found herself alone at the head of the restaurant, harassed by paparazzi. Two years later, she received an invitation to a renowned gastronomic congress in Taiwan.

Joseph Cohen, a Breton peasant, is threatened with expulsion by Alexander, the castle lord, who wants to drive him out of his farm to rent to the town as a dump.

A painter was found burned in her studio twenty years ago. Her story resurfaces when the police begin to investigate on two others homicides in Pont-Aven.

In 1903, on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, a syphilitic and alcoholic Frenchman called Paul Gauguin died of a heart attack. At that point nobody realised the incredible impact Gauguin's work was to have on modern art. Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood carver, musician, print maker, journalist and ceramicist. As well as telling the remarkable story of Gauguin's life, Januszczak also celebrates Gauguin's achievements and examines the various accusations of sexual misconduct, familial neglect and racism that are frequently made against him. The film contains many of Gauguin's masterpieces and includes paintings put on show at the Hermitage in St Petersburg which haven't been seen in public since their disappearance during World War II.

Georges Dupin, a crack but somewhat maverick Paris criminal commissioner, is sent to coastal Brittany. He must solve the murder, soon two, of two members of the respected local Penec family of a national MP. Despite mistrust of the cocky metropolitan outsider, he and his nerd assistant work out the key is an officially unknown painting by Gaugin, promised to a Paris museum, and forgery.