French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.

Un été, au Kremlin-Bicêtre, deux histoires se télescopent dans un feu d’artifice tragi-comique. Un réalisateur et ses comédiens n’arrivent pas à terminer leur film, refusé à l’avance sur recettes. Ils assassinent les membres de la commission, seul le président en réchappe. D’autre part, un mandrin moderne et muet, en rollers, vole l’argent des riches pour le donner aux pauvres… Catalogue de situations dramatiques et cocasses, le film réfléchit la circulation de l'argent, son incongruité et explore la confusion qui peut régner entre les comédiens et les personnages qu'ils interprètent. Enfin, il met en lumière les doutes, les inconscientes volontés de pouvoir et les angoisses d'un auteur.