Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment...
Augustine, a young girl suffering from hysteria, arrives at the Salpêtrière Hospital. She quickly becomes the favorite model of the new photography laboratory and the patient of Professor Charcot. Little by little, she escapes the control of the doctors.
