Antoine, a fanatic billiards player, is asked to watch over an art gallery. When he scuffles with an art thief a large statue falls and severs his right hand. His maverick investigation leads to the discovery of large scale art fraud and a number of gruesome killings. Soon Antoine finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a gallery owner whose hand has also been cut off. A final game of billiards decides the final outcome of this satirical tale, syncopated with brilliant riffs about the world of modern art and the parasites that infest it.