In post-war France, Jan Bojarski, a young Polish refugee, becomes the greatest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of counterfeit money".
How this man led a double life for over fifteen years, unbeknownst to his family, making counterfeits alone in a garden shed that were "truer" than the bills issued by the Banque de France... How, for all these years, this peerless counterfeiter managed to avoid being caught by the police and became the bête noire of Commissaire Mattei during a hunt that, for these two obsessives, turned into a duel.
