A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.
Michael (Jamie Foxx), nişanlısı Rae (Nia Long) ile romantik bir tatil yaparken, ev için biriktirdikleri parayı lüks bir spor arabaya harcadığı ortaya çıkar. Rae öfkelenip onu terk eder. Michael, çölde bir benzin istasyonunda mahsur kalır ve arabası çalınır. Bu sırada, üç soyguncu marketi basar ve Michael ile diğer müşterileri rehin alır. Polis ve SWAT ekibi olay yerine gelirken, Michael, soyguncularla mizahi bir şekilde başa çıkmaya çalışır.
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.
Lea and her husband Marc have known Francis and his wife Karine for a very long time. Over the years, each one of them has been assigned a specific role. The balance and dynamic of the group is blown up when Lea decides to write a novel, which turns into an immediate bestseller…
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.