After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

In the 1950s, an apprentice pork butcher in Bourg-la-Reine leaves his job to go to Indochina. In this way, the young Alain Delon seeks to bring closure to a singular childhood, caught between feelings of abandonment and confinement. His parents divorced, he no longer saw his father and lived for a long time in Fresnes prison, where his nanny's husband was a guard. But his indiscipline led to his expulsion from the French Navy. Back in France, he frequented the Paris nightlife and underworld, which brought him into contact with the world of cinema, although the idea of becoming an actor never crossed his mind for a moment. It was by chance that he finally embarked on the career that made him a worldwide star.

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.