Teva Royer, a police lieutenant in Cayenne who is close to his feelings and without a filter, trusts his instincts blindly. Raised in a village in the heart of the Amazon, he survived alone in the jungle for seven months when he was just a child. No one knows what happened during those long weeks, but since then, no emotion, no hesitation, no movement escapes Teva.
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.
The rich heiress Hélène de Graf is found dead, murdered. Her lover, Thomas, is the ideal culprit. Accused, tried and imprisoned. After thirteen years Thomas tries to find the killer...
Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837 to the end of the Second Empire.