Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed....
The action takes place in Cantal in the 1950s. Le Bricou, an aging cowherd, lost two animals while summering on the Limon plateau. A banal, almost insignificant event and yet it is enough to hammer him into his head. His life is turned upside down. And if others laughed at him, and if he was no...
An old man goes to visit his wife in hospital to find she has died. He leaves the hospital refusing to sign the necessary papers and is followed by a security guard. The guard follows him onto a bus and the old man explains why he must leave.