A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.

The fortuneteller Rosita and her assistant Raoul are with their caravan on a fair. Earning money is not easy for them because their clumsiness leads to one disaster after the other.

At the frontier between youth and adulthood, François is in love with Michel. Michel doesn't seem to care. The arrival of Alice, a capricious young woman, threatens to disturb this strange balance.