Anti, gravedigger and obstinate shy, discovers that his girlfriend is cheating on him with his boss. Unable to express his anger, he packs his bags and sets off, determined to rebuild his life. Unfortunately, his journey takes him in situations more and more catastrophic, until having to dig his own grave in the middle of the forest. The providential arrival of a jogger changes the game. A new game begins.

At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.

A seemingly mystical murder takes Captain Sophie Maliquot back to the Mont-Saint-Michel region where she spent part of her childhood and where her father, who died years earlier, is buried.