[5] The action begins and ends in Albi, while the rest of the film is set at a former petrol and service station, restored at the Pessageries, on the road to Cordes.
[7] Ulysse, a student of meteorology, and fan of the music of Elvis Costello, works Saturday in an isolated petrol station opposite which lives Marie, a girl his age, with her father in an abandoned garage.
Marie wants Ulysse to cross the road and chat with her and tries insistently to catch his attention, but to no avail (despite the urging of his friend Ken) as he is a shy dreamer.
Two English crooks, Anton et Mirek, are meanwhile criss-crossing the region in an old van to find the petrol station where they hid in the toilets the results of a robbery.
Costello songs which are used in the film are: 'Big Boys', 'Beyond Belief', 'Shot with his own gun', 'Shabby doll', 'Alison', 'Waiting for the end of the world', 'Red Shoes', 'Favourite Hours', 'Complicated Shadows', and 'Poor Fractured Atlas'.