Old Victor discovers, while plowing his field, three gold nuggets. The villagers, quickly aware of this, came running, shovels and picks in hand. Victor takes the opportunity to rest. At the end of the third day, the field is ready to be sown. The gold nuggets are in their place... in their little...
It is a difficult task for this unemployed chemist who has become the butler of a former diplomat. He will have to protect him from the women he likes a little too much, and from his own family who wants to put him under guardianship.
The audience witnesses Jeroom's (played by Jacques Dufhilo) holiday adventures on the Spanish Costa Brava which are reminiscent of burlesque, silent movies and the slapstick world of Jacques Tati.
