Moullet, the jester of the Nouvelle Vague, plays an elderly director who is past his best. He comes up with a plan to breathe new life into his fame and status: under the motto 'speak no evil over the dead', he fakes his own death and adopts the identity of a dead tramp (whom he finds on a deserted Alp, typical for Mou…

导演亲自扮演一位电影导演，他辛苦工作收入菲薄，而且还无法满足自己的妻子。影片中夫妻俩在打架、交谈、修补关系，再谈话、接着打架。