Catherine-Isabelle Duport

After his boss's Porsche becomes unavailable, a hairdresser's assistant, who is a car fanatic, and his girlfriend must find a car for his debut race.

Paul is young, just demobbed from service in the French Army, and disillusioned with civilian life. While his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his peers—“the children of Marx and Coca Cola”, as the credits announce—and from their social politics.