Centers around the encounter of four people appearing to have nothing in common other than their inability to integrate with a society marked by solitude. They get to know, and even love, one another to form a family of sorts. Camille is a strange young woman who cleans offices at night even though she is a very talented illustrator. Franck is a cook who is uncouth on the surface but tender deep down, and who looks after his grandmother Paulette, a fragile old woman with a great sense of humor whom he has freed from a nursing home. Philibert is a fading young aristocrat who puts the three others up in his apartment.