This gritty boy-meets-girl set in the unvarnished housing projects of Saint Denis centers on Coralie, AKA Brooklyn, a talented young rapper who leaves Switzerland to find success in the hip-hop subculture of Paris. She is taken under wing by the stern but avuncular social worker Yazid, who invites her to his poetry-slam events. When Coralie proves she can bust a rhyme with the best of them, she gains the attentions, partly amorous and partly adversarial, of Issa, who up to now has been the unchallenged star of the scene. But as Coralie transforms herself into her rap persona Brooklyn, she begins to question the success she thought she wanted.
