Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

20-year-old Kamel has a project for his low-income neighborhood in the South of France. Committed and idealist, he is invited to pitch it to the Minister of urban planning, in person. Together with his sidekicks Hichem and Youssoufa, Kamel finds himself in over his head, caught up in a political game.