A portrait of the collapsing Left, against a background of rising extremisms.

Early 21st century: two philosophers opposed in every way dream of taking the Republic of Letters by storm. A second-zone apparatchik, a Socialist Party agitator of ideas, is obsessed with
saving the French Republic. When a satirical daily triggers an unprecedented geopolitical crisis and a series of terrorist attacks with its caricatures, these three ambitious individuals found a secret movement that will draw the country towards an unforeseeable fate.