Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
Alice experiences the ordinary happiness of a mother when everything changes: the man of her life, Thomas, the father of her child, is suspected of being Antoine Durieux-Jelosse, the man who hit the headlines for having killed his entire family fifteen years ago.