In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write in real time "the history of the Moscow Metro". Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the purges of 1937-38.
Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a forlorn tower. When the captain's wife Adele tries to shake her melancholia by playing the piano, she finds -- much to her surprise -- that she's being accompanied by violin music coming from the prison cell.
O carismático criminoso Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), que teve sua primeira arma quando foi batizado, lidera uma gangue de ladrões brutais, com sua bela namorada surda Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci). Depois de um complexo e brutal assalto a banco, eles estão sendo caçados pela polícia de Paris. A caçada é liderada pelo sádico policial Christini (interpretado por Tchéky Karyo), que tem apenas um objetivo: pegar Dobermann. A qualquer custo.
