The scam of the century, which occurred in France and Europe between 2008 and 2009. Billions gone up in smoke on the new financial market of "carbon quotas" invented to fight against global warming. The association of Belleville crooks with a trader from the wealthy neighborhoods, tracked by an obsessive investigator. When human passions are unleashed beyond simple interest. Based on the investigative book by Fabrice Arfi.
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.