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Jean-Baptiste Baratte, an engineer of modest origin, arrives in the city in 1785, charged by the King’s minister with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, a ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood’s air and water and leaving a vile taste in its inhabitants’ food. At first the ambitious Baratte sees his work as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to both his own demise and that of the monarchy. Baratte expects the task to be unpleasant but cannot foresee the dramas and calamities it will trigger, or the incident that will transform his life. As unrest against the court of Louis XVI mounts, the engineer realizes that the future he had planned may no longer be the one he wants. His assignment becomes a year of relentless work, exhuming of mummified corpses and listening to the chants of priests, a year of assault and sudden death. A year of friendship, too, and of desire and love. A year unlike any other he has lived.

Στα 1785, το πιο παλιό κοιμητήριο που βρίσκεται στην καρδιά του Παρισιού είναι υπερπλήρες και μολύνει την αναπνοή των περιοίκων. Τότε εμφανίζεται ανάμεσά τους ο Ζαν-Μπατίστ Μπαράτ, ένας νέος μηχανικός από την επαρχία, που έχει αναλάβει να το ανασκάψει εκ θεμελίων κατ’ εντολή του βασιλιά.
Ο Μπαράτ θεωρεί στην αρχή το εγχείρημα απόλυτα ταιριαστό για έναν άνθρωπο της εποχής του ορθολογισμού και ευκαιρία να καθαρίσει το βάρος της ιστορίας. Πριν όμως περάσει πολύς καιρός αρχίζει να υποπτεύεται ότι η καταστροφή του κοιμητηρίου μπορεί να προοιωνίζεται και τη δική του.

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