Coming from the London bourgeoisie, the Nosferat (this time, with the vampire taking on the role of the famous serial killer who raged in the London district of Whitechapel in 1888), reforms bourgeois morality by reducing its puritanical contradictions. He executes prostitutes “in the name of Virtue, Morality and order”, as a result of a repressive education he received, especially on the sexual level...
François, a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very ordered and secure and perhaps feels a bit claustrophobic. When he observes that a murderer has been declared psychologically incompetent and is to be placed in a mental institution, probably for the rest of his life, François feels the murder's plight very keenly. As time goes by, the murderer's situation is more and more unbearable to him, and he breaks off his engagement. Afterward, he has a liaison with a girl he has not known before, an act that somehow frees him. Now he wants to free the murderer somehow.
Traveling in North Benin, Cécile crosses the path of a young African mother deposited him, distraught, a baby in arms ... Cecile will adopt this child will grow African and Lancelot in France. The year of its seven years, she left with him to the country of its origin and attempts to pierce the secrecy surrounding its abandonment.