Henri Désiré Landru fut le 1er Serial Killer célèbre du XXe siècle. Il tua 11 fois, niant l'évidence et faisant preuve d'un rare cynisme et d'un réel talent d'humoriste pendant tout le procès. Bien que soupçonné d'avoir brûlé les femmes recrutées par petites annonces, il fit rire tout Paris et rendit célèbre son avocat. Laurent Ruquier a décidé de vous faire revivre l'historique vie de Landru, de la période vaudevillesque pendant laquelle il jonglait entre les rendez-vous avec ses futures victimes, avec sa maîtresse et ceux avec sa femme et ses enfants jusqu'à son arrestation, son procès et sa condamnation à mort.

Jean, nicknamed Brasse-Bouillon, and his brother Ferdinand live with their paternal grandmother, who is responsible for their upbringing. But when their parents returned from Japan, they settled in Belle-Angerie and resumed their role with the children, while their grandmother had to leave for cousins. The boys soon come up against the contempt of their mother, Marthe. Faced with this shrew, whom he nicknamed "Folcoche" (a contraction of "madwoman" and "pig"), Jean decided to join the resistance.

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

Directed by French author Geroges Perec, Les Lieux d'une fugue is an autobiographical account of the writer's experience of running away from his aunt's house at age 11. As much a meditation on the streets of Paris as it is personal narrative, Les Lieux d'une fugue examines how Perec's verbal games play out alongside a movie camera.