知识分子让-皮埃尔·穆勒过着宁静的生活。一天，他收到政府的来信通知他已被指定为一个问题少年安托万的家庭教师。他想尽办法拒绝，但越是要摆脱责任，越发现自己深陷其中，于是他不得不面对这人生中重要的课题……

Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom - based on all the noise technologies - thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene, he blithely cheat for years. However, his last link with his pretty secretary, Eve, is the straw that broke the camel : Irene has indeed hired a detective-photographer, aptly named M.Colle order to have a maximum of incriminating shots. Threatened to divorce and thus to total ruin by his wife, the unfaithful husband should give up and dismiss Eve.