Gloria, Lili and Amir rehearse a Noh play under the strict direction of Master Hiro. The premiere is in a few hours, Amir has trouble concentrating due to the incessant noise of the door slamming, Lilli's awkward position on stage makes it difficult for her to perform, and Gloria, the great admirer of the master suffers from knee after injury. Nothing is going well and the master has disappeared. He is locked in his dressing room from which a thick smoke comes out. In search of their master, the three actors discover that this committed director never wrote his plays, that he stole them from his childhood sweetheart.

Vlad, a twenty-something, lives in the 13th district of Paris. He has amazing running skills, and dreams of becoming a professionnal, but he also is in big money trouble.