Raphaël, a young engineer, returns to his native village at the bedside of his dying grandmother, Isabelle.

This one is actually doing wonderfully, it was a ruse to get her grandson back because she wants to see him marry a rich heiress, Evelyne.

Raphaël bends to his desire and woos Evelyne, but he is much more attracted to the seductive Lucie, a childhood friend.

"(...) In fact, the film manages to sustain itself throughout the first half, thanks above all to a screenplay which (despite being less quick than that of Poveri ma belli), does not lack tasty ideas and guessed skits (...)"[3] "The film would like to be a pleasant little picture of the province and show in a humorous key certain situations caught in reality.

The screenwriters and director have also trod the hand, filling the story with commonplaces.