Tatum, a young man in his forties suffering from a deep depression, is hired as a museum guard. Tasked with looking after a sculpture that exerts a mysterious fascination on the public, he gradually falls under its spell himself. He protects it as if his very existence depended on it, at the risk of losing touch with reality.

Erwan and his friends rob a restaurant to finance the shooting of their film. Because Erwan is a violent psychopath, everything will go wrong and end up in bloody slaughter.