During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.

In a rural setting on the weather-beaten French Atlantic coast, the ten year old daughter of a single mother is implicated in murder. Crime scene evidence contradicts the story of the talented, introverted child as expressed in her Mangas.

On the verge of arrest, a corrupt congressman takes refuge in his cousin’s house, the home of a boorish yet life-loving peasant. Swapping a luxury mansion for a hovel, a veritable pigsty, this refined and educated gentleman finds it hard to adapt to such a crude way of life. To make matters worse, a DJ with a trailer parked nearby is planning to throw a rave out in the middle of nowhere. The disgraced politician is waiting for his accomplices, who are supposed to take him to an airport so he can flee to South America. But nothing goes according to plan, and he ends up stranded with his vulgar relative in the back of beyond.