Alexandre Charlot

In a penitentiary, four prisoners occupy a cell: Carrère, who used his company to commit a fraud and was betrayed by his wife; the drag Marcus and his protégée, Paquerette, who ate his six month old sister; and the intellectual, Lassalle who killed his wife.

This French comedy broke box office records in its homeland. Philippe, a postal worker in Southern France, attempts to please his gloomy wife by pretending to be disabled in order to get a job transer to a Mediterranean seaside town. When his fakery is rumbled, the company punishes by transferring him to Bergues - a cold and wintry town in the north of the country...