L'imprenditore Castella ha una vita non particolarmente brillante e la sua è la cultura televisiva che impera nella borghesia dei nostri giorni. Una sera però rimane colpito da una rappresentazione teatrale di Berenice e si innamora del testo e dell'attrice che ne è protagonista. Entra nel giro di attori e registi non accorgendosi di quanto questi stiano prendendo in giro la sua mancanza di cultura. Intorno a lui ruotano personaggi alla ricerca di un senso nella vita e nei sentimenti. Agnés Jaoui ha diretto con mano ferma un film che è frutto di un lavoro attento sui personaggi e di un'orchestrazione davvero magistrale per un'opera prima.

If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the “normal” people – with their career plans, their adulteries, their arrogant incompetence – have fallen into a sort of collective madness. Who knows. Because he has no choice, because he is in love with his wife and because he refuses to resign himself to the worst, Samuel Polaris decides to regain his dignity. Even if, to do this, he has to steal from his psychiatrist the watch that Kennedy was wearing the day he was assassinated.

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...

A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.

A pebble has been locked up by political opponents in a high school and joins forces with three idiots to escape - a real obstacle course awaits them.