From day to night, Otello, a construction worker and former tailor, moves between a sprawling Parisian construction site and a rundown nightclub on the brink of bankruptcy.

A History of Darkness summons the figures of Nero, Dante, the Marquis de Sade and Ludwig II in the intoxication of their obsessions, between ecstasy and damnation, fascination and repulsion. A family portrait teetering on the edge of the abyss.