A game of chess is being played in a picture, in which the white knight has been taken. And now a player is dead. Next to be threatened is the white queen. When Julia, the picture's restorer, discovers that she is the white queen, she needs urgent help to plot her next moves.A game of chess is being played in a picture, in which the white knight has been taken. And now a player is dead. Next to be threatened is the white queen. When Julia, the picture's restorer, discovers that she is the white queen, she needs urgent help to plot her next moves. Winner of Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere: Romans Francais 1994.