The scam of the century, which occurred in France and Europe between 2008 and 2009. Billions gone up in smoke on the new financial market of "carbon quotas" invented to fight against global warming. The association of Belleville crooks with a trader from the wealthy neighborhoods, tracked by an obsessive investigator. When human passions are unleashed beyond simple interest. Based on the investigative book by Fabrice Arfi.
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.