Claude, an elderly man living in the 1960s, believes he is dead, and cannot explain why his body is lingering in the living world. He has tried to 'get rid' of his body multiple times to no avail. Claude is just a particle of air in his drug-transcended offspring's lives. Whilst the family prepares for his grandson Florian's balloon-filled birthday, Claude decides to attempt using young Florian to help him meet his end, in order to allow his body to follow his mind into death.

A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.