André Roussin

After World War II, the orderly life of a deputy secretary of state for family affairs, who had succeeded in closing brothels and increasing penalties for abortion offenses, is turned upside down when he learns on the same day that his wife is expecting a child and that his son has impregnated his secretary! This is only the beginning of a series of unexpected events that will shake up the foundations of this bourgeois family...

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"

Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.

A husband plans to shoot the man having an affair with his wife, but both come to realise their desire to escape the tyrannical woman in their lives.

Véra Bellini fights with her psychic friends for their gift to be recognized by medicine. But her opponent Doctor Pelletier thoughly resists and will reveal a difficult secret about Vera's life.

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.