The story kicks off in France in the 1990s. Increasingly violent confrontations between the police and the projects rage on, but some choose hip hop as a means to express rebellion. Two youngsters from Seine-Saint-Denis, Didier Morville and Bruno Lopez, swiftly become (under their artistic names JoeyStarr and Kool Shen) the spokespeople for an entire generation. This heralds the birth of rap, the birth of a band: Suprême NTM.