When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world's population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. 

As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question - who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction ? 

24th January 1994. Three corpses are found in  Miami, Florida. Several clues are found including a video. Three weeks later, a police agent claims that he recognizes Pablo Ibar on the video, a young Spanish who just got arrested for a minor theft. This is where the struggle starts. Pablo insists he is innocent. None of the traces found on the crime scene accuse him. But the  relentless insistence of the district attorney put Pablo through a never-ending, painful judicial process – composed of three trials.

Present-day France. The first presidential candidate of Algerian descent is on the brink of power. 

But on the night of the election, he is shot, bringing turmoil to two families and the entire nation. 

Savages is a thriller and family saga, reflecting on France's contemporary identify.