Elisabeth 'Liddy' Godderis, missing since two days at her Brussels catering job, is found murdered at her home in Dilbeek (near Brussels). The killer changed the bed linen and washed her posthumously, in bath. Gardener Marcel Geeraerts, a former colleague and supervisor, saw leave her just-dumped young gigolo, truck-driver Alex Cools. Part of the team assumes he did it, others he's been set up, and indeed she had other admirers. Liddy's bachelor sole son André Godderis, in debt after a failed business she refused to invest in, is caught intruding the crime scene.