Jean Gerardy

Having lost his physician's license, Dr. Louis Krantz joins a gang of hoods to treat their wounded. When his son falls ill and needs expensive medical help, Louis decides to participate in a hold-up with the gang. Unfortunately for them, the robbery goes wrong. The gang boss, persuaded that Louis has betrayed them, decides to gun him down.

A Belgian village is struck by repeated flooding, all this because they lack a new sewer. But the Ministry delays in providing the funding needed to build it. To alert public opinion, the villagers decide to do something. This "something" will be a play describing the life of their saint patron. Trouble follows, partly fueled by the short-tempered mayor.

Pouske runs the "Le Bienvenu" café with his wife Antoinette and daughter Jeanne. On the market square, the fairgrounds are setting up their rides and the neighborhood is getting ready to party. But Jeanne is about to fall in love with a sweetheart who has come from who knows where to cause trouble.

Joachim Dallayrac, célèbre basse-baryton, au sommet de sa carrière, annonce brutalement qu'il se retire de la scène. Dans son château, il se consacrera désormais à la formation d'une seule élève, Sophie, dont il recherche la perfection vocale. Puis il rencontrera Jean, voyou à la voix d'or, qu'il s'efforcera également d'élever dans l'art du chant. La musique, ici, résonne comme un dialogue, rend plus intenses les regards des acteurs et les couleurs des décors, et ouvre le désir d'en entendre d'avantage...