This is a documentary about Mickael Suphi, a very normal boy who becomes a torturer. In the local soccer club, and also among the girls of the small Belgian town of Halle, he is a star. When Mickael performs his military service in his native country of Turkey, the clever lad from Belgium draws the attention of officers of the 'counter-guerilla' unit and is given another post. In a secret torture school in the basement of the officer's hotel in Eskesehir, he is trained as an 'interrogation specialist' in 10 days.

'They aroused the beast in me,' Mickael recalls today. However when he is supposed to torture a child he refuses to carry out the order and flees the country in dramatic circumstances. He leaves his family and ' for fear of revenge ' leads an underground existence in Africa and Spain. A shattering story of cowardice and guilt, of courage and the will to live.