Sami lives happily working on an austere construction project forged among friends and neighbors in his neighborhood. To meet the needs of his wife Alice, who is expecting a child, he takes a job as a night watchman in a luxury goods store.
The richest man in France, who has become cold and cruel since the death of his wife, decides to give his son Alexandre for his birthday the gift of his choice from the whole store to win back his affection …. and the child chooses Sami!
This is how a man with no future becomes, by surprise, the plaything of a capricious child.