Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.

Un hombre se va a Francia tras la invasión nazi y adopta la identidad de un escritor muerto del que tiene los papeles. Atrapado en Marsella, allí conocerá a una joven que busca desesperadamente al hombre a quien ama.

Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.