When a large amount of money is embezzled in the French Consulate in Rio
de Janeiro, a government investigator is sent to look into the matter and
resolve it as tactfully as possible. Any hope of a tidy resolution
is shattered when the diligent investigator dies suddenly from a heart attack
in his office. Not knowing how to deal with this unexpected turn, the
dead man's two assistants agree to hide the body, but in doing so they bring
about a bizarre sequence of events that leads them to take control of the
consulate. As the stakes are raised, the lies and deceit become
increasingly hard to deal with. When the director of human resources
and Vice Consul see through the deception our enterprising heroes must exercise
every last ounce of initiative they have to avoid a catastrophe...
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