Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.

1982. German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder secretely arranges a temporary exit from the world : thanks to the pioneering technology conceived by a French physicist, he has his prematurely aged body cryogenised for posterity. He wakes up in France, in 2028. The country has fallen under the yoke of a depressing dictatorship

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.