Stanislas, a fisherman, loses everything when his boat breaks down. Too old and illiterate, he decides to join forces with old fishermen who attack trucks on the road. It is very risky for Stanislas as his own sons are police officers. When things go wrong, he ends up with a box in which he finds a 10-year-old boy...
Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Spanish pickpockets on the streets of Paris, posing as policemen who arrest a gang member while the others rifle the pockets and purses of gawkers. When all of the gang except Richard and Philippe are pinched, things look grim. Plus, Richard insists that they take in a wide-eyed immigrant lad, a deaf-mute left behind in the arrests. Philippe suggests a three-person pickpocket trick, using the boy, but when that goes spectacularly badly, they hit rock bottom. Then, at the cinema, the lad finds a solution. It's time to celebrate.
The story of three characters who lead their lives as if they were running a store, day by day. Three inseparable characters who would not exist if they had not met each other, who make life impossible for themselves and turn their daily lives into a series of improbable numbers.
