After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her.