The year is 1999. The place, a district under renovation. Zoom into Batofar, the red steel barge on the Seine complete with lighthouse is moored at the foot of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Skip on a decade or so and Batofar continues to be a very different kind of place that marks the rhythm of Parisian nights. The post-tenth anniversary era has welcomed new scenes, new rooms, new music and new experiments, enticing even more people into the sphere of the barge.