Vinz, Hubert and Saïd live in a deprived neighbourhood in Paris. When a friend of theirs is brutally beaten during a police interrogation and taken to hospital in mortal danger, the already very present tension in their part of town reaches a critical boiling point. In the intense turmoil of the riots, a police officer loses his gun. The gun is found by Vinz. The latter vows adamantly to shoot a cop dead if his friend Abdel does not survive his injuries.