Hariette, a young screenwriter at the start of her career offers a producer newly settled in her city a remarkable story of a young comedian and filmmaker in his thirties who lives in a society where being an artist is oftenly considered as a sin, a curse or even a waste of time. It is Alfred a devoted young man who lives with the mother of his children. He chose to study cinema while his parents who had exhausted all their savings sent him to Europe to study law, in order to become a lawyer and take care of the family.