It tells a part of the life story of Jacky Imbert, and is based on the novel L'Immortel (2007) by Franz-Olivier Giesbert.

Filming began on 23 February 2009 in Marseille, in Avignon in early April 2009, and continued for 8 weeks in Paris.

His past catches up with him when he is ambushed by an eight-man hit squad in a parking lot who kill his dog and leave him for dead with 22 bullets in his body.

He visits the hit squad during a birthday celebration and announces that he will kill each of them randomly at a time of his choosing.

Towards the end of the movie, in order to save his kidnapped son, a desperate Matteï makes a deal with Goldman, who herself is divided between doing her duty and punishing the murderers of her husband, who she suspects were Zacchia's men.