"A poet. A thief. Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies." At a deserted train station, a teacher and a gangster meet and realize that each might have been better suited to the other man's way of life...

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.