Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.

A French police unit tries to stop a group of criminals.

A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?

A drama centered on three people - a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy - who are touched by death in different ways.