A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler lives with.Meanwhile the young man is intrigued by another, more innocent girl.
Simone's friend is murdered and the young woman is implicated. A journalist, Bernard Landry, succeeds in proving her innocence before being himself unmasked by an investigator.
In the Canadian Far North, a couple is looking for a gold mine. They meet a sergeant and his friend. But the man is killed during a fight with an adventurer.
Young Moussa left his native village of Nanguila to succeed in Bamako. But in the capital, he only lived on the cheap and even ended up in a detention center. Now, he understands that his true place is with his family, in the village of his childhood, to which he will help to breathe new life now...
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, author of "Dangerous liaisons", finds himself in prison and confronting the marquise de Merteuil. Together they discuss his characters of the marquise and vicomte de Valmont and the web of circumstance and intrigue that connects Laclos's work and life.