Paris, the 1980s. Alone in the funicular that ascends the Montmartre hill, a
man reminisces. He remembers himself at age 18, a country bumpkin who left
his hometown in search of the gleaming Paris of the 1950s. The capital, with
its magical lights, its incomparable nightlife, its girls, its gangsters, its rackets
and its various kinds of trafficking… The boss of a famous nightclub takes
Antoine under his wing, and the young man meets a panoply of colorful characters:
Pretty Beb, Windshield, Thickfist… He also discovers love and lives it
all with intensity, until the day when, unannounced, his life changes radically.
In Montmartre, the funicular always makes the trip back down…
