The Crisis

Paris in the early 1990s: Victor, a wealthy lawyer, leads a seemingly perfect life - until he wakes up one morning and finds only a letter instead of his wife: She has left him. After the initial shock, he takes the two children and his mother-in-law to the train station as they are going on a skiing vacation. He then rushes to work, where the next blow awaits him: his dismissal from the law firm. The HR manager has no time for discussion and his wife immediately wants a divorce and starts terrorizing him on the phone. Victor is desperate and seeks solace from his friend Paul - but he is hopelessly overworked and is himself in a marital war with his wife, who is also threatening divorce. Victor barely manages to get a single word in during their loud argument. After further failed attempts to make himself heard, Victor finally ends up in a bar where he meets Michou, a hard-drinking vagabond who listens to him. After the conversation, Michou never leaves his side and accompanies Victor from one crazy situation to the next in his search for understanding and the reason why his wife has left him.