Après avoir gagné des concours d'imitateurs d'Elvis puis être devenu une star internationale du rock, Bob Gratton acquiert Radio-Cadenas et Power Corporation. Nouveau magnat de la presse, il en profite pour forger le monde à son image.
Two friends are looking for new topics of conversation. A couple quietly bicker. A woman talks about herself as a drowing soul. Twelve characters (eleven writers and a painter) - bitter, tender, funny - beat their heads against the wall of the banality of human existence and against words...Will a great destiny ever come to the aid of their petty miseries?