At the Comédie-Française, there is one golden rule: the play is never canceled. Unfortunately for Nina, everything else is—just three hours before the premiere of her first staging. An actor is stuck on a train, tensions explode, equipment breaks down, egos clash, and panic sets in. With no way out and time slipping away, Nina must hold the show together at all costs. Will she make it until the curtain rises?
Angèle, a thirty-something from Ivory Coast, always cope thanks to the gift of gab and audacity. To escape from a bunch of dangerous criminals, she becomes a nanny in the uptown Paris, hired by Hélène, the single mom of eight years old Arthur. Discovering the work conditions of her colleagues, she decides to stand up for their rights, thanks to a young lawyer who will quickly fall for her.
Tüm entrika, bir kasada bulunan "carte-blanche" (kayıtsız şartsız yetki) belgeleri etrafında dönüyor. Bu belgelerdeki boşluğu kim doldurursa, bir revünün sahibi oluyor. İşin içinde büyük paralar var. Kasanın sahibinin yeğeni, amcasını kandırmaya ve belgelere kendi adını yazdırmaya çalışıyor. Ancak işler daha da karmaşık çünkü banka müdürünün de bu işte parmağı var. Bu düzeni, mütevazı bir banka veznedarından (Pierre Richard) başka kim bozabilir ki?
Georges Lachaunaye is a member of an impoverished aristocratic family which needs money to live but of course doesn't want to work for it. He therefore has to think of something drastic in order for the family to survive. And then it comes to him: he'll rob the collection boxes in churches.
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.