The Parisian cemetery of les Innocents is so full of corpses in this year of 1785 that it crumbles down in the neighborhood caves. Its common pits and charnels have been filled up through the centuries and its pestilence is contaminating the city, its air and its very food.
This is when Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young engineer from Normandy, is hired by the minister to dig them up and send their bones to the quarry where we can still see some of them in the Catacombes.
