A fines del siglo XIX, el brutal terrateniente Seamus Laurent masacra a un clan romaní, desatando una maldición sobre su familia y su pueblo. En los días que siguen, la gente del pueblo está plagada de pesadillas, el hijo de Seamus, Edward, desaparece y un niño es encontrado asesinado. Los lugareños sospechan de un animal salvaje, pero el patólogo visitante John McBride advierte sobre una presencia más siniestra que acecha en el bosque.
Ludovic Pessac, un abogado de unos 30 años, es asesinado en su oficina. La fiscal adjunta Elisabeth Richard y el comandante de la gendarmería Paul Jansac están a cargo del caso.
Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the Fastlife...
Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, François will as well go to the ill-known taverns of the Latin Quarter that the Court of the Duke of Orleans, passing by the benches of the university. This marvelous poet at the same time as a scoundrel of morality will have a life where fights, robberies, imprisonments and final banishment will be linked. Leaving Paris, Villon will disappear.
