A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage daughters. Lya, 17, and Chirine, 18, respond to their father’s bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as most French adolescents. When Chirine is offered work as a model, she jumps at the chance, but soon realizes she may be about to fall into the prostitution racket...
Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul.
