Three families who live in a shared backyard wait their problems to be solved by others. Drama develops when owner of the house comes back from America with his rich pension. His family starts to fantasize what will they do with all this money once he passes away, but old man dies after a month without leaving a written testament behind.

Bernadette considers monogamy an outdated lifestyle. Therefore, she maintains simultaneous relationships with three pilots: Pierre, William, and Alexei, who, however, know nothing about each other. Since Bernadette chose them partly because of their different flight schedules, two of them are always in the air.