当法兰西共和国总统前往卢瓦尔河工业区圣埃蒂安一家罢工工厂视察民情时，熟料他竟成了一次自杀性爆炸的遇害者。激烈动荡的政界要求在35天内提前举行总统大选。毫无疑问，现任共和国总理菲利·普德勒福尔是入主爱丽舍宫的有力候选。但公众并不知道，这位政府的领头人掌握着更多不为人知的秘密。惊天的阴谋迫使前总统的媒体顾问西蒙·卡皮塔再度出山。为了捍卫已故好友的荣誉，为了维护政坛格局，这位幕后枭雄已经锁定好了自己的目标：寻找一位有力的候选人以期在竞选中打败德勒福尔。

François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next-door neighbor who suggests an unexpected plan to keep his job: pretend to be a homosexual. Assuming that in this age of political correctness, one does not fire a gay man, he manages to convince Pignon to play along while remaining a discreet and shy little man... What will change is the way others look at him. Pignon will thus benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet where he had never entered.

Jeff Tuche 从美国回来后为了让 TGV 在自己的村子停站居然准备竞选总统，而结果