Dir.: Michel Piccoli; Script: Michel Piccoli, Thomas Cheysson; Phot.: Laurent Machuel; Ed.: Emmanuelle Castro; Mus.: Arno; Cast: Maurice Garrel, Roland Amstutz, Arno, Bernard Bloch, Pascal Elso, Michèle Gleizer, Nathalie Eno, Elisabeth Margoni, Roger Jendly, Dominique Blanc; Prod. & Sales: Paulo Branco, 73, rue Saint-Denis, Paris (France), tél.: 40 39 03 75, fax: 42 33 12 13.

Constantin has three sons. Three sons, three families and their children. The first son is a trucker, the second an accountant and the third an ex-plumber who was in the hospital for a week after attempting suicide. The three families team up under the leadership of the accountant to buy Henri the trucker his own truck, something he's dreamed about for years. Constantin, stern patriarch, joker, a great lover of life, keeps his brood under constant surveillance. The three families live in three consecutive flats in the same building. Constantin himself lives in an old railway car transformed into an extravagant den. He makes a living from mysterious jobs, surrounded by a band of phantom associates. His truck is his store, a warehouse his depot. His grandchildren are his accomplices. Mireille, the eldest, is his heroine. Our heroine. Constantin had two wives: the late "Queen Mother" to whom he has consecrated a small shrine in his railway car, and Rose's mother, to whom he is dedicated and tender. Rose, his only daughter, is his other heroine. Our other heroine. Relations between Constantin and his three families are violent, brutal, tender, ferocious, turbulent. Their relationships are a comical concoction of silence and shouts. All thoroughly bracing. The characters evolve in a universe where life is lived with an intensity bordering on the mystical. A universe where one can find Constantin and his grandchildren play-acting a hold-up at night, where one can find a couple making love in the wedding suite of a large furniture store, where gifts can be semi-trailers wrapped in glossy paper and tied with ribbons of all colours.