A man walks nervously up and down in his apartment. He is looking for something; in drawers, in a big suitcase, in books. In a small locked chest, he finds two passports. Are they his? Where does he come from? Who is he? Metropole is a film about migration, about assimilation, about the haunting of one's past. It is a film about identity; lost, assumed, false. Metropole tells the story of millions of people out there who leave their homes behind in order to find a new one.