1968 _ To pay for the upkeep of their château, a family of penniless aristocrats turns to renting out rooms, getting hold of the few clients prepared to stay in their home by sabotaging their cars. That works fine until the day they meet their match in César, a passing bank robber...
1966 _ It's October 1918, and British soldier Charles Plumpick is sent on a recce mission to a small French village which has recently been evacuated. He discovers that the residents of the psychiatric hospital have been left behind, and are running the town according to their own whims and fantasies. With the war far away, the patients welcome Plumpick into their world as the 'King of Hearts'.