Mafia leader Parmie (Vincentonov) wants to "leave a name in history", so he keeps appearing in the media, claiming that he wants to protect the forest on Staten Island. Jasper, who runs a delicatessen, is deaf and dumb. In addition to his own business, he has been forced by the gang to deal with corpses for many years. Jasper's friend Sully (Ethan Hawke) is a sanitation worker who is about to become a father. He has always felt inferior about his IQ. In order to give his girlfriend a better life and to participate in embryo experiments so that their unborn children have a higher IQ, he is willing to do anything. The three of them all live on Staten Island, in the shadow of Manhattan, but their different life paths are intertwined... This film is produced by the great director Luc Besson.