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It's a hotel with walls in the corridor covered with striped paper, crossed like bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, swallow and digested by their voracious thirst for a cheap high. Enough to forget for a while the distress of a ruined life and to dream of a more rejoicing elsewhere. Nathalie and her brother Tof struggle against this futureless world. Pierre, a shoe-repairer, troubled by Nathalie's grace will take part for a while to the life of these two children of misery.

Ralph Nieves, a charismatic Latino former undercover narcotics New York detective, used to put criminals in jail. After being wrongly accused by the Feds of drug trafficking, a crime that carries a 45 year prison sentence, Ralph was finally acquitted during a Federal trial. Now, as a private detective hired by court appointed lawyers on what are known as 18B cases, Ralph helps impoverished clients to get out of jail.