French crime thriller starring Jean Yanne & Jean-Louis Trintignant. Simon Hirsch (Yanne) is a bored, 50-something salesman whose life changes when his best friend, undercover cop Mickey (Yvon Back), ends up in a coma after being shot during a stakeout. Leaving his dead-end job & his wife behind him, Simon now sets out on a crusade for revenge on the would-be killers. Meanwhile, in a convergent story set some time earlier, unlucky-in-cards gambler & drifter Marx (Trintignant) instructs unworldly youth Johnny (Mathieu Kassovitz) in the ways of gangland life.