获得打字比赛冠军的少女从乡下来到巴黎，她虽然努力打字努力工作，却厌烦生活的一成不变和未婚夫的乏味。她曾尝试白天工作、晚上疯狂，但姐夫劳累过度的遭遇加上自己精力也不能应付工作的压力，最终令她只能在工作中寻找乐趣。如今看来，《过度劳累》应算是一部积极的现实题材，雅克.多尼奥-瓦克罗兹在短短20分钟的时间内表达了他对上班族如何平衡工作与娱乐的看法，其中又有社会折射，实属难得。

A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. Hoping to parlay the experience into a better life for himself, he eagerly prepares for his departure from his native land. Although an educated man, he has extreme difficulty finding work and an apartment. He sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment. A dinner with a liberal white friend even reveals a continuing attitude of colonization towards third world countries. The disappointed man runs off to the woods where he hears the far off cry of the jungle drums calling him home from a cold and indifferent land. Written by Dan Pavlides, Rovi