In this French gangster drama, a young hoodlum, new to his famed father's dubious profession, successfully completes his first hit but then finds himself trapped in between a brutal vendetta between rival gangs. To save himself, Francois joins forces with a motley gang of crooks, led by the emotionally unstable Rufin, and tries to wait the situation out while amusing himself with the affections of a nightclub chanteuse. Meanwhile, his colleagues are being killed off, one by one, leaving him to wonder whether or not his father will use his clout to save him.

Dans une zone en sursis aux accents d'apocalypse, entre Camargue naturelle et terminal industrialo-portuaire, les signes de l'accélération capitaliste et de la submersion se font de plus en plus sentir. De ce paysage bipolaire, Matthieu, un philosophe arpenteur, en dresse un inventaire minutieux, comme une archéologie du futur qui active la parole et convoque l'imagination, les désirs, les croyances.