Gary starts working at a nuclear power plant looking for easy money. Karole is the fiancée of longtime plant employee Toni, one of the many who are exposed to deadly radiation levels. Soon Gary and Karole fall in love, and their romance poses a growing threat to the staff’s tight-knit bonds.

Rebecca Zlotowski proved her directorial talent with this beguiling portrait of the lives of workers on a nuclear plant. Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim are electrifying as two risk-taking lovers in this lyrical drama, conveying with radioactive vigour the high intensity of such working conditions.