Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.

A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.