A butcher lives his daughter as a single father in a Paris suburb and he tends to become overprotective and develops incestuous feelings for his child. When he kills a man who he supposes to rape his daughter, he is imprisoned and his troubled daughter is sent to an institution. In the time he's in prison and after being released, he experiences 2 relationships but since both of them don't last long, and then he decides to look for the only person he feels has ever loved him, his daughter.