One morning, Laura Corre files a complaint against the former mayor of the southern town where she grew up, who had recently joined the government. She has to face the reluctance of the police officers taking her statement. After leaving Paris, Laura had returned to live with her father, Max, a former boxer who had become the mayor's chauffeur. Seeing an easy target in the shy young girl, the mayor agreed to pull some strings to get her a place to live.

Daniel Valerio is a writer and wishes to tackle the theme of the psychic pathology for his next novel: NABIS. But this same novel has brought him himself gradually on the path of psychic illness. By dint of research without answers to this disease, he becomes aggressive and forgets to his family, obsessed that he is by his manuscript. One day, his wife Nathalie decides to leave with his daughter, Nina, while Daniel begins to believe in the existence of the characters he has created ...

Margot, a young woman, is treated very poorly by her bourgeois family. Her stepfather is cruel to her, her mother looks the other way, and her younger brother is spoiled. When she starts to rebel, the family’s peaceful existence is shattered.

April 15, 1874, boulevard des Capucines, Paris: a group of young feverish painters shunned by the official Salon and mocked by the classical masters, chose to come together to exhibit their paintings freely, in the studio of photographer Nadar. At the end of a teeming century, when modernity was emerging, this group of rebellious artists, revolutionized the world of art.