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The film opens with Taha's heavily armed thugs in pursuit of Leito (Belle), who has stolen over 20 keys of brown heroin. But not for intent to sell or a fix - he destroys the junk before it gets distributed to the residents in the projects. The henchmen come for him, naturally, so he's up and running, scampering up the sides of walls, down hallways and out over Parisian rooftops.

The lithe and tattooed Leito tries to get his kidnapped sister out of the city, and Damien is a cop who fears the bomb is about to explode there. So they work together to round up the thugs and demonstrate that "violence isn't the only way to solve problems," still, however, the series of sequences that ensue should satisfy the action fans.

Much of the movie was actually shot in tyrannical housing projects of Romania. And yet, the movie exudes the air of disaster hanging over Paris, setting the tone for life in the ghettoes - rats, trash, drugs, and graffiti. Nevertheless, the rat-in-a-trap scenario has a certain urgency, certainly due to the riots that wracked France a few months back.