One morning, Laura Corre files a complaint against the former mayor of the southern town where she grew up, who had recently joined the government. She has to face the reluctance of the police officers taking her statement. After leaving Paris, Laura had returned to live with her father, Max, a former boxer who had become the mayor's chauffeur. Seeing an easy target in the shy young girl, the mayor agreed to pull some strings to get her a place to live.

Margot, a young woman, is treated very poorly by her bourgeois family. Her stepfather is cruel to her, her mother looks the other way, and her younger brother is spoiled. When she starts to rebel, the family’s peaceful existence is shattered.

The main character is a lonely modern man addicted to sex. He can not understand women and is obsessed with finding the ideal. He admires mathematics and thinks that mathematics is the only way to reach his ideals like Plato. One day he buys a female robot hoping to find his ideal in a machine functioning on mathematical principles.