Returning to his beloved native Marseille, Carpita focuses on three unemployed dockworkers who try to earn their keep by selling seafood.

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

Fascinated by the dazzling small screen, Bernard leaves home sweet home, daddy and mummy and his native city (Toulouse) to try his luck in Paris.