Evelyne Lacroix

Dans un petit cirque de campagne, le numéro de Valentin, le nain, est l’un des clous du spectacle. Mais voilà qu’une nuit, il grandit d’un coup et se transforme en un beau jeune homme d’un mètre soixante-dix-huit. Tout d'abord fou de joie, il va se heurter à la dure réalité de la normalité.

An old Montmartre building with countless tenants: on the seventh floor, a Russian painter, Igor, lives in his art and dreams, whose paintings express kindness and indulgence; two floors below, a poor cabaret singer, Seraphita, poses for her neighbor when she feels too lonely and abandoned; further down, the Prunelle family lives, where the father and mother, inveterate drunks, indulge in drink and give their eleven-year-old son. Tique, who seems to have become indifferent, the spectacle of atrocious domestic scenes. By the time the film begins, Father Prunelle, drunker than ever, has chased Tique's mother away with insults...

Aout 1944, Nanteuil vient de se libérer après quatre années d'occupation. Tous chantent et dansent dans les rues. Mais la fête est troublée par une trentaine de soldats allemands en retraite qui tirent dans la foule.

At a construction site, an ex-con tries to sabotage the marriage of a man who married his fiancée while he was in prison.