2/… Sam Spade, a Phillip-Marlowesque private eye retired in French countryside, gets somehow involved with a case featuring 6 dead nuns, French Army snipers sniping French monarchists’ snipers, MI6, CIA, the Vatican and more shady players all searching for a possibly autistic Algerian boy

3/… whom some consider a Messiah and others a code-breaker due to his unexplained propensity to scribble numbers on any surface he comes across. If you think that is confusing, it doesn’t get any better. They all converge on Spade’s chosen sleepy town in the middle of nowhere France.