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2 thirty year old friends in an empty apartment. One is a mediocre comedian, the other a failed playwright. The former sold his apartment and asked the latter to be present when the compromise was signed, to reassure the buyer. Because if he writes very bad plays, he still has a reassuring face. It’s its great quality. We're waiting for the buyer. Besides, buyer or pigeon?
Vatelin and his wife Lucienne love tender love. Rédillon, a friend of the couple, has been courting Lucienne for years. Pontagnac, notorious womanizer and friend of the husband, has only been courting her for a few hours ... And Vatelin is enjoying this unusual situation. Everything spoils when Maggy returns, a very old English mistress of Vatelin who blackmails her by suicide if he refuses an appointment ... Lucienne has always sworn that she would take a lover as soon as proved her husband's infidelity. Who will be elected, who will be the turkey?
A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But is it so easy to break up a couple and lose a friend? ... "
Why do we often go to dinners we don't want to attend, to see friends who aren't really friends anymore? Out of habit? Out of kindness? Out of cowardice? Intoxicated by the idea of tidying up their schedules by sorting through their old friends, Pierre and Clotilde Lecoeur (played by ERIC ELMOSNINO and LYSIANE MEIS) decide to organize farewell dinners, the ultimate form of friendly divorce. However, by choosing - as their first victim - Antoine Royer (played by GUILLAUME DE TONQUÉDEC), their oldest friend, Pierre and Clotilde are unaware that they are getting caught up in a downward spiral.
Doctor Moulineaux, "serious and established" after a dissipated youth, lives a bourgeois life with his wife Yvonne and his servant Étienne. But he has gone to the Opera ball to win the heart of the elegant Suzanne Aubin. He arranges to meet her in a mezzanine that belonged to a seamstress. Impromptu visits from his acquaintances force him to pretend to be a tailor.
This one-act play is followed by three other short stories: A Well-Typed Letter, A Pair of Slaps, The School for Lies. This series of sketches successively tells the story of a guy who thinks he's Napoleon (at least with his mistresses), a traveler struggling with a very enterprising typist, a slap orchestrated by a devilish trio, and a writer who gives two apprentice actresses a rather unusual audition.
John Rockefeller is completely overwhelmed by events: he must simultaneously face the perpetual attacks of "colorful" Indians , the multiple romantic imbroglios which are playing out within his home, the sudden crisis of dementia of his wife and finally the drunken wanderings of the local doctor, Doctor Butler, a man particularly given to drink.
Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.