A group of adolescents prowl the streets and subways of Paris as they carry out a bombing plot. Afterward, they seek refuge in a shopping mall and soon lose themselves in consumer culture. Will they survive the encroaching authorities? Or, as the walls close in, will they even survive each other?

A tour-de-force provocation by French auteur Bertrand Bonello, Nocturama imagines a teenage act of terrorism in Paris freed from ideology and motivation. The first half proceeds like a thriller, the second, like a siege film set in a luxe department store.. A seductive portrait of young, lost souls.