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Paris, 1979. Rose and her fiancé Michel are members of the trendy crowd who party at the famous Le Palace nightclub. One night, they meet and older couple who take them under their wing and completely change their lives.  

Novak (Victor Lanoux) is a police inspector to whom any means is fair in getting evidence on criminals - especially drug dealers. He is after a drug ring that includes a city official and desperately needs evidence to bring the corrupt politician to trial, and to close down the ring. 

The same day, 480 miles apart, two cops are handed two unusual investigations. Niémans, a man experienced in and possessing an infallible instinct, but who masks painful, heads for Guernon, a town in the Alps, where a grisly murder has taken place. 

Twenty-year-old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne.