Catherine misses her Flixbus and finds herself stuck on a motorway service station, somewhere in the south of France. Resigning herself to getting by, she sets off on foot along the motorway, crossing industrial landscapes where she meets the Marseille pharaoh. This mystical and buffoonish figure takes her to the wasteland areas of the peri-urban world, explored in wide shots that stretch the distances and the emptiness of spaces. Catherine meets crooked bosses, techno-beat Tesla drivers, comes across a ceremony dedicated to the mysterious catfish man whose arrival so many devotees await... A picaresque journey into the imagination of the margins, folkloric fantasies revisited through the prism of a post-industrial society in full decay.