Colombe revient à Sauveterre dans l'Aveyron pour l'enterrement de son père, le coutelier Henri Pagès. A l'enterrement, il y a : Anselme et Marie, avec leur Paul, devenu aussi bon coutelier que son patron, sinon plus ; le Maire, toujours du côté du manche, et sa femme la brave Giséle ; José Pujol "l'Espingouin" Anar et Mr Rieux, le directeur d'école anti-curé. Il y a aussi Jean-Pierre Genest, le jeune notaire si froid, si sec de Rodez qui se frotte les mains au vu d'une belle affaire et d'une vieille vengeance à assouvir... Tout ce monde est là autant par hommage au patriarche que pour voir sa fille Colombe qui avait claqué la porte familiale vingt ans plus tôt. La "Parisienne" est devenue responsable de marketing pour une marque de lessive, a divorcé et a deux enfants pas faciles... Elle est désormais une "étrangère" et le petit village se demande mine de rien ce que va devenir la plus vieille coutellerie du pays.

Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene's reputation and then her very life.

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.