Dead city. Foggy night. A saxophone is playing. Lust is lurking.

"My muses may not be yours, my monsters may not please you." CHARBON portrays a new generation of Parisian artists: authors, photographers, illustrators, performers, musicians, poets. They all let their thoughts drift away during nights, performances or simple conversations.

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

Tom is a teenager born and raise in Germany. He represents an actual queer archetype dealing with daily issues and through different mirrored characters - from different backgrounds and countries - we follow his quest towards self-acceptance and troubled identity.