Ray is a university law professor who has just been divorced. He receives a letter from his father, widowed, elderly and very ill, summoning him and his only brother to discuss his will. Ray goes and finds that his father has passed away... and some boxes containing three million dollars. The entire novel is dedicated to locating the source of this money.
The book is an invitation for the reader to reflect on his attitude towards his parents, children and siblings. And, above all, his attitude towards money. Those three million, in hundred-dollar bills, have an attraction over Ray, as seductive as the attraction that any of us feel towards riches. This novel is, like the parables of the Gospel, a good opportunity to make a good examination of conscience.