简介：凯瑟琳·弗洛扮演一个生活单调的女售货员和两个孩子的母亲，尽管生活有很多不如意但是非常乐观。艾尔伯特·杜邦迪的角色是一个作家，尤其受生活单调的母亲们喜爱。但是他的事业和感情受到打击以后就崩溃了。后来他遇到了自己的忠实读者，反而发现这些读者才明白生活的意义。影片喜剧中添加了大量的歌舞成分。

简介：In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont (Romain Duris), traumatised by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana.　　But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris where is brother Marcel (Grégory Gadebois), a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went out without him.　　Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Hélène (Céline Salette), a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind.　　He will finally attempt to heal their wounds, and his.