Dheepan is the story of a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.

Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor’s time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.