Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.

A fictionalized report from the Côte d'Azur. Preparing for vacation (diet and artificial tanning). The vacation route (a hitchhiker has her luggage stolen by a motorist; hitchhikers steal, rape and leave in their victims' cars...). "Dolce vita" in Saint-Tropez. The art of spending a vacation with a minimum of money (prostitution, cheating at gambling, pussies kept by old ladies...). Naturists on the Ile du Levant. Vacation club romance. Drugs (a girl gets stung and falls into a coma next to her friend, already dead). The end of a vacation (a young woman, ruined by her stay on the Riviera, indulges for a day in slaughterhouse prostitution to pay for her return).

In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.

At 45, divorced, unemployed and father of two children, Franois Morot realizes that he can no longer support the society in which he lives and decides to leave everything.

Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself...

Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.