An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.

Après une période de régime dictatorial, un pays imaginaire se retrouve en plein apprentissage de la démocratie. A., un fervent partisan de cette nouvelle liberté, se retrouve menacé de mort par les membres de l'ancien régime. Sylvie, sa femme, a quitté le pays pour la France. Contraint de se cacher, A. doit également penser au sort de sa fille Joyce, tout juste âgée de douze ans.