Jadis, Paula était une avocate brillante et respectée. Lorsqu'un de ses clients, un meurtrier qu'elle venait à peine de faire libérer, a froidement assassiné deux enfants, son univers de certitudes a volé en éclats. Aujourd'hui, dans l'anonymat de la rue, elle rumine son dégoût des autres et son rejet d'une réalité devenue abjecte. A tel point que personne n'ose affronter son caractère revêche. Personne sauf Serge. Travailleur social dévoué à la cause des plus démunis, il espère venir à bout de ses craintes. Lui seul a vu que sa carapace d'indifférence cache en réalité une plus profonde souffrance. Mais malgré sa douceur, Paula ne se laisse pas approcher si facilement...

Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an old book of recipes in the trash, they discover a passion for French cuisine and decide to participate in a televised cooking competition.

Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?

2000 film by Raoul Peck