Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et qu'ils ont grandi. Parmi eux il y a Francis, l'ouvrier consciencieux qui continue d'entretenir la machine sur laquelle il a travaillé toute sa vie ; Samir, son fils.

Because of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He gets into more trouble trying to do that.

30-year-old Djemila, a single jurist, at last has her own apartment... a few steps away from her parents' place. A French woman of North African extraction, she does everything she can to hide her origins. Emma, her nutty and broke neighbor, struggles to raise her two children alone. Although these two women have nothing in common, a deep friendship forms between them because of their mutual love of music.

Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen in love with the attractive young woman, Arnaud decides to pass himself off as an ordinary street guy named...Mohamed.

Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But in the city, relationships have changed...

Walid (Samir Boitard), a non-commissioned officer of Algerian origin in Afghanistan, returns to France only to find that his desire to take up a normal life again is blocked.

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

Mohamed holds the wall in the suburb. For almost thirty years, he has been there, always in the same entrance to a building, with the same friends. It's boredom, unemployment. Dreams are extinguished. However, around them, it circulates, it lives. It also succeeds. Women, they work and pass without even seeing them. And there are more and more strollers. Dozens of strollers. Even the younger generation is already parents. What if that was "the solution", the way out of a universe without a future? No one takes Mohamed seriously. And yet! By opening, against the general opinion, a "wild" nursery, by offering working women to keep their babies, Mohamed and his friends will offer themselves a future, a job, respect for all ... and who knows , maybe, love!