News from Planet Mars

In Paris, the forty-nine-year-old computer engineer Philippe Mars is a good and respectful man; however, he is not respected. When his abusive ex-wife needs to go to Brussels, she leaves their seventeen-year-old daughter Sarah Mars and thirteen-year-old son Gregoire "Greg" Mars with their dirty clothes without any previous note. Both teenagers are dysfunctional, and Greg is fanatic vegetarian now and the unrealistic Sarah expects to have a great job after graduation. Philippe's boss explores and asks him to absorb the work of the unstable and psychotic Jerome despite Phillipe is overloaded. When Jerome has a breakdown in the office, he throws a machete cutting a piece of Phillipe's ear that goes on surgery for re-implanting. He visits the art gallery of his sister Fabienne "Xanae" Mars and sees that she is selling paintings of his parents naked with exposed genitals to make money. But soon his life turns upside-down when Jerome flees from the psychiatric hospital and seeks shelter at his apartment. Phillippe is incapable to say no to him; The crazy co-worker brings his crush from the institution, Chloe, to stay in his apartment. Soon Xanae leaves her annoying dog without his permission in his apartment. The chaos in his life forces Philippe to change his attitude towards life.