Adalbert, a paranoid, overprotective single dad imposes a set of 20 rules on his daughter Sylvie before she leaves the small town of Ormont-Dessus for university. Making sure that she obeys them perfectly, he secretly follows her to Basel, but ends up falling in with a party crowd and breaking all the rules himself.

A director desperately tries to replicate his debut success by strictly adhering to the golden rules of arthouse filmmaking on set. But luck is not on his side. Neither the cast nor the crew believe in the project – and nobody wants to film the nude scene that, according to the director, is absolutely essential!