阿德里安是一个学习钢琴已有15年之久的天才钢琴家，可是在梦寐以求的伯恩斯坦钢琴大赛上他功败垂成，人生跌落谷底。经过一段时间调整，阿德里安重新振作，成为了一名盲人钢琴调音师。事实上他只是带上了隐形眼镜，这会让别人认为他听觉方面更加敏锐，并由此得到更多的同情和消费，甚至还会窥视到别人的生活与隐私，他兀自沉浸在这种虽处闹市又仿佛置身世外的超然之中。某天，他来到一户人家工作，殊不知这里刚刚发生一起凶案……

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont (Romain Duris), traumatised by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris where is brother Marcel (Grégory Gadebois), a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went out without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Hélène (Céline Salette), a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds, and his.

很久很久以前，膝下无子的穷樵夫与妻子过着寒苦日子。某日大雪，集装箱列车如常划破森林的宁静，却在铁轨旁遗留了一名婴孩。樵夫坚信那定是火车载运的万恶异族所抛下的孽种，妻子则认为是上天恩赐，执意留下孩子，而这个选择，彻底改变了他们的命运。在世界最黑暗的时刻，良善的灵魂依然催生了希望之光。

本片改编自《悲惨世界》开篇前 100 页内容。这部分情节虽为冉・阿让的人物塑造奠定根基，却常被影视化改编大幅压缩。而在本片中，我们将深入探寻冉・阿让的真实内核，完整呈现他的人生蜕变之旅：从一个被 20 年冤屈与苦难击垮、出狱后又遭世人唾弃而彻底绝望的囚徒，蜕变为我们熟知的那个重拾人性、灵魂得以救赎的人。