Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

一场意外中，康斯坦特（丹尼尔·奥图 Daniel Auteuil 饰）锒铛入狱。他的妻子珍妮（萨宾·阿泽玛 Sabine Azéma 饰）来到了监狱中，她告诉康斯坦特自己将要离开他，去和其他人结婚了，这让康斯坦特大发雷霆但也只能在铁窗后面无能狂怒。
因为情绪过于激动，康斯坦特竟然脑溢血发作了，他被送进医院接受紧急治疗，虽然保住了老命，但是病灶影响了他的中枢神经，给他造成了语言方面的障碍。每天，在护士的安排下，康斯坦特不得不从最基础的语文学起，仿佛一个小婴儿在牙牙学语。康斯坦特决定不再坐以待毙，他打算劫持护士，进而越狱。然而，话都说不利索的他能够胜任绑匪这一重大职务吗？

Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.