Jacques Bonnot

A worker and his boss hold each other prisoner 250 feet above the ground. Let's have laugh before joining the dole queue !

The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar: a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head over heels in love. The convict who has just escaped from jail wants to keep her out of his predicament, but after a night of desperate love, she refuses to leave him.And the police are tracking him down.

The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples.

Mehdi, 17 years old, arrives in a sawmill in the Monts du Forez to serve a sentence of community service. He is placed with Abel and Marie Vagney, in the family sawmill. Mehdi finds it difficult to adapt and his relationship with Abel is strained. However, between the young man and Abel, bonds are formed.

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.