Paris, 1931 . France at the peak of colonial power, which will inevitably be followed by a decline. To prove its greatness to the whole world and to itself, the government of the country organizes the International Colonial Exhibition pompous, hypocritical and unambiguously chauvinistic. Frenchman of Algerian origin Alain - a mediocre artist and a brilliant photographer - begins to notice that some of his models die a sudden and strange death. Gradually, as on the positive, the terrible truth appears. And the death of a beloved cat during the experiment is only a prologue of a shocking denouement.