Albert Quentin ( Jean Gabin ), a former(ancient) drinker, leads a life quiet and resigned with his wife ( Suzanne Flon ): « it is the happiness arranged in a cupboard » . Rainy autumn evening, arrives Fouquet ( Jean-Paul Belmondo ), Parisian young person come flood domestic problems in the alcohol.

Both men(people), who have « the small wine nor cooked narrow-minded », are going to know two days of evasion thanks to the drunkenness, the one in Spain and the other one in China; the highlight being a fireworks "Dantesque" on the beach. Then each will return to the life of front, « as these small misled monkeys whom we meet in East at the time of the first colds, and which restart in trains, to find the jungle and their customs »

The film was turned during the winter 1961-62 , to renamed Villerville «Tigreville».

By walking you, you will find easily the main places of shooting of scenes: the beach, the street of Baths, street Daubigny, the Norman Cabaret, the Hotel of Baths (alias « Stella hotel » ), the angle of the street ABEL MAHU where was the shop « In the Parisian chic » , routes her(it) main where was turned the scene of the bullfight, the police force, the shopping street