In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States. The debates over slavery, the populism in the roaring twenties, the struggle for civil rights in the sixties, the rise of the far-right in the early 21st century; the Klan seems to have always embodied the dark side of the nation, with its gray areas and blind spots.
The writer Aurélien is in hospital and learns that his parents have died in a car accident. The loner reluctantly travels to Brittany to arrange the sale of his parents' house. He can't help the memories that the small town evokes in him. Is Aurélien really the black sheep of the family? On the coast in Saint-Lunaire, Mado, an old family friend, upsets his certainties. His former best friend Hervé, a real estate agent in charge of selling the house, surprises him with a discovery.
