In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic.

As in a Hollywood western, rice growers and bull cultivators come into conflict in the Camargue.

As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves to go fishing with his friends Garrigue and Watermelon to prepare a good bouillabaisse, and even more, to rig the results of a vote to allow a little protégée to be crowned Miss flots bleus.

Four young girls fall in love with the same man.