Thierry Steen, managing owner of a Belgian advertising company, is murdered at his wedding, lured upstairs in the grand Bruges estate -with a secret passage- of his extremely rich, conservative father Jacob Steen, who forced the fake marriage upon the closet gay. Koen Verhelst, executive of the country's largest, internationally branched media firm Big NV, commits suicide shortly after. Pieter Van In duly mistrusts television presenter Linda Tensen, who was sent to cover the wedding and ignores her editor's veto to try proving herself an investigative reporter. It all fits a grand plot of tycoons to control the 'trias politicas' by taking over and abusing the European media. A municipal politician is drowned in his bath, having got hold and blackmail-demanded a fortune for a document outlining their strategy to control broadcast and written press through advertising, written by Ilse Beerten, right hand of Big NV owner Vincent Carron.
—KGF Vissers