Marseille , the '30s. roch Siffredi , banned from returning to jail and released from prison for good behavior , he decides to society ' with franois chapel , one of its competitors . the two manage to become the most ' powerful in the local crime (including horse races and boxing matches rigged scams fish market, prostitution , gambling , etc.) as well as inseparable friends , even if divided by love for lola , the woman roch that during the detention of the latter had lived with franois . the rise elicits the reaction of the other clans , especially those headed by poles and Marello , which gave rise to a series of bloody firefights , ambushes and reprisals , from which roch franois and you will defend well . One evening , during a luxury holiday, franois decides to leave Marseille and leave the field open to roch because, even in the underworld , the thirst for power is likely to prevail on friends and sooner or later , and ' intended to be replaced . just out of the villa is mortally wounded, expiring in the arms of roch , now beside him to help him.