Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

Frédéric, de retour de la guerre d’Algérie, épouse Sylvie et renoue avec sa vie au quartier Latin. Désoeuvré, obsédé par ses souvenirs militaires, il accepte divers emplois. Devenu photographe, il pense construire enfin une vie de famille. Cette première oeuvre témoigne avec authenticité et courage du contexte historique et politique de son époque.