聪明女子Anne(奥卡菲娜 饰)沉迷于知名问答节目《Can' t Stop Quiz》,而如今她不得不与关系疏远、人生一团糟的姐姐Jenny(吴珊卓 饰)重逢,因为两人的妈妈欠下赌债,她们必须联手凑钱。因此,这对姐妹踏上了一场狂野的穿越美国之旅,迫切希望赢得足够的钱来还债,而唯一的方式就是让我们不情不愿的主角成为——一个真正的《Can' t Stop Quiz》冠军。
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont (Romain Duris), traumatised by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris where is brother Marcel (Grégory Gadebois), a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went out without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Hélène (Céline Salette), a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds, and his.