Henri Charrière, nicknamed Papillon for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, is a safecracker from the Parisian underworld unjustly convicted of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to life in the penal colony of French Guiana. There he forges a vital alliance with Louis Dega, a wealthy, frail counterfeiter who needs protection in exchange for financing an escape. Amid forced labor, solitary confinement and the ever-present shadow of Devil's Island, Papillon's obsession with freedom becomes an unbreakable struggle. An epic prison drama about endurance, friendship and the indomitable human will.