26 kids disappeared. The cops didn't have a clue. They thought the kids didn't have a prayer. They thought wrong.

Baptiste Lachaud, known affectionately as Tistin, is the only man in the village of Clochemerle not to have a job. With the help of the local mayor, he gets himself registered as unemployed, so that not only can he carry on doing nothing but he will also be paid for doing so. Understandably, the villagers do not take k…