Claire is surprised when she gets arrested for the murder of her childhood friend after she returns to Montpellier.

In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.

Today, death of a project youth following a police control - 25 years ago, disappearance of an activist - The journalists from "Back Up!", an alternative media, are investigating - Their opponent? The State determined to keep control over the Republic's forgotten territories.