Costs Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, takes a trip to Marseille to see his separated little girl, Allison, who remains in prison for a murder she claims she did not dedicate. Confronted with language obstacles, social differences, and also a complex legal system, Costs constructs a new life for himself in France as he makes it his individual mission to pardon his daughter.
Costs Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, takes a trip to Marseille to see his separated little girl, Allison, who remains in prison for a murder she claims she did not dedicate. Confronted with language obstacles, social differences, and also a complex legal system, Costs constructs a new life for himself in France as he makes it his individual mission to pardon his daughter.