Le blaireau s'fait mousser

Jean Levêque has been unemployed for two years. His wife, Armelle, tries to support the family but her salary cannot cover all the expenses. Together with his wife and father-in-law, he imagines stealing a truck carrying used banknotes destined for destruction. With the help of a vehicle of the road service, they perpetuate their coup which succeeds perfectly

Two young delinquents run away from a reformatory, across France with a front-wheel drive (Citroën) and live on thefts made here and there in a very crazy way...the police are on their heels, love for one of them is on their way, but so is the drama.

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

A car speeds down the road. On the road, Olivier and Angelina are hitchhiking. The kidnapping of a hitchhiker is never reported in the news. Angélina, kidnapped, is taken to a château for an evening of gallantry. She is made to drink, falls for a man, and the others take advantage of the situation, all night long. Olivier's situation, left alone on the road, doesn't improve. He's looking for Angelina. At the same time, the gendarmes are looking for the escapee from the Melun prison. Olivier, mistaken for the escapee, is pursued all night by the gendarmes. For both Angélina and Olivier, the night is one long corridor. In the morning, the outcome is brutal, inhuman. Angélina is left alone, naked.