Jean-François Pastout

Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.

The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.

On the verge of arrest, a corrupt congressman takes refuge in his cousin’s house, the home of a boorish yet life-loving peasant. Swapping a luxury mansion for a hovel, a veritable pigsty, this refined and educated gentleman finds it hard to adapt to such a crude way of life. To make matters worse, a DJ with a trailer parked nearby is planning to throw a rave out in the middle of nowhere. The disgraced politician is waiting for his accomplices, who are supposed to take him to an airport so he can flee to South America. But nothing goes according to plan, and he ends up stranded with his vulgar relative in the back of beyond.

Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart disease which needs operating on, Jean-Pierre finds out what it is to be a patient.

Six thirty-something friends leave wives and kids to relive their first holiday. During a week, they will realize they are not as young and, above all, not as grown-ups as they think. Their friendship will be smashed into pieces...