Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France.

A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love with Emily, John's mistress. After the death of the father of his hosts, he has the idea of ​​transforming their peaceful house into a brothel.

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

A group of pensioners, exasperated by the Social Security strike, meet Chalupot, a former paratrooper and ex-priest who has just been released from prison. He encouraged them to form the M.L.V. (Mouvement de Libération des Vieillards) and organize demonstrations. But as Chalupot is arrested and locked up, the pensioners plan to hold up the Social Security.

In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony.

During the debacle of 1940, the turbulent adventures of a pimp, his "five secretaries" and three soldiers.

There are small problems everywhere, including in a Paris area bourgeois housing development. In this particular building, a motley crew tries to resolve shared co-ownership problems. Among them, a Foreign Legion colonel and his dog; an unfaithful gynecologist and his fiery nurse; a voyeuristic filmmaker and his editor in love; a Don Juan-type antique dealer; an adorable old lady and her nice son who turns into a drag queen at night; an FIFG interviewer; an unbearable opera singer; a lesbian; a deceived woman.

An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.