Four down-on-their-luck men are hired to drive trucks laden with nitroglycerine through the mountains as part of an operation to extinguish an oil well fire.

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?