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'.
1963 _ Adrien, a soldier on leave for eight days, arrives in Paris and witnesses his fiancée being kidnapped by two strangers. Without a moment's hesitation, he gives chase and slips aboard an airplane bound for Rio...