Françoise Oriane

After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father's succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime, built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon, Paul and Jacques get close and they start to see each other secretly. (Semaine de la critique)

Acerbic comedy set in a small French town, where Edmond Zweck's funeral business is ailing. One morning, a body finally turns up, and Zweck and his employees Georges and Eddy have some work on their hands. As they set for the graveyard though, this glimmer of hope turns to disaster.