Laurent Terzieff

At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder there, is still investigating helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.

Two French drifter pilgrims leave Paris to visit the tomb of Spanish Saint John de Compostello. Their motives are not purely religious as one man wishes to defy God and the other to find a good place to beg. Along the way, the men meet God, Jesus, Mary, Satan and more.

When an ex-mechanic begins work at a coal mine in 1870s France and is brutally exploited by the management, he leads his fellow workers in a strike.