A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French drama. This has not been the first time young Denis Lavant has been in trouble, and this time the judge sentences him to the Coral, an experimental open community founded in 1975 by Claude Sigala, in the wilderness of the Camargue. There he encounters a group of inmates just as neurotic and messed up as he is.

Denis est un délinquant récidiviste. A la suite d'une agression, il se voit proposer par un juge le choix entre la prison et un stage de réinsertion au Coral, institution pour jeunes psychotiques.