This is a film based on real events and real people. The story takes place in Marseille in the 1970s and 1980s. Jean Dujardin plays the police officer Pierre Michel, who has been tracking down for years and trying to destroy the largest local drug trafficking organization in Marseille. This organization transports drugs from Turkey to the United States via France, thus providing a large supply of drugs for the American drug market. The 1971 film "The French Connection" directed by Hollywood director William Friedkin was set in the same background.