Jean (Frédéric Pierrot) is a Frenchman in an American psychiatric hospital where time does not function properly. Monique (Bérangère Allaux), an escapee from another asylum is captured and brought in. To Monique, Jean's foreignness represents a kind of freedom. As we watch the tumult of their lives and that of the other patients and orderlies, questions emerge as to who is really "Inside" and who is not.—Pierrot le Phew