Tous à la manif

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Neither haughty nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his teaching methods...

Karim is the next big thing in the Parisian literary salons: a young Arab who has sneaked into the high life of the intellectual elite, living his dream. Arthur Rambo, his online alter ego from long-forgotten times, hiding homophobic and antisemitic jokes up his sleeve, steps out of the virtual shadows, threatening to tear down Karim’s current success.

La Ciotat, the South of France. Antoine attends a summer writing workshop in which a few young people have been selected to write a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The creative process will recall the town’s industrial past, a nostalgic exercise to which Antoine feels indifferent. More concerned with contemporary fears, he soon clashes with the group and Olivia, who seems both alarmed and captivated by Antoine’s violence.