Back on the parisian riots of march 2006. By crossing the points of view between the individual, the crowd, the mass, this film tries to draw from the TV coverage some more nuanced, more troubled perception. "Milling around" projects us in the center of the action by keeping us strangly remote at the same time.

Paulo Gustavo, 15 years, spends his days to the Social centre of the evangelistic Church. His mother, Gisele, has alcoholism problems. She has to go to the Centre where she meets Valeria, the social worker charged of submitted of a report with the authorities to validate or not the guard of the children by their mother. Valéria is also mother of two children. She is an evangelistic Pasteur and pushes the family to integrate her Church. Gustavo tells to everybody that he's in love with “Taina”, who nobody knows.

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

Life in the big city. Thomas is a young artist, broke and unattached. Laetitia is an attrac- tive, intelligent young woman in high heels. A party. A dance. An invi- tation. The pair spend the night together – vacillating between hospi- tal and bed, between light-heartedness and high drama. They are the bright stars that give paintings their depth.

Victoria Spick, a criminal lawyer in a total sentimental void, grudgingly accepts to defend Vincent, while she hires Sam as an au pair. The beginning of troubled times for Victoria.