Cécile Laligan

Louise has been a widow for years and teaches literature in a high school. She divides all her time between books and her son, Martin, who still lives with her. During a family lunch, she meets Martin's best friend, Stanislas, a young painter of Russian origin, who is studying at the Beaux-Arts and whose talent promises a brilliant career. Louise is still finding Stanislas very attractive and already the young man is madly in love with her. All it takes is a little something to bring the two lovers together in the same passionate embrace. Informed by his mother, Martin pretends to be delighted by this unexpected rapprochement between the two beings he loves the most. His rage bursts, however, during the family meeting that Louise has organized to make her affair with Stanislas official.

Pour se rapprocher de ses enfants à la suite de son divorce, Laurent Monier, professeur d'histoire-géographie dans un paisible lycée de province, accepte un poste dans un collège sensible de la banlieue parisienne. On lui attribue la classe la plus dure, la quatrième techno, et il trouve un appartement à la cité des Muriers, un quartier particulièrement difficile.

Divisional Inspector Bricot sends two detectives to the French Riviera to dismantle a drug deal in a carnival mask factory. However, knowing the low efficiency of his subordinates' work, he goes down to Nice to conduct the investigation.