« C'est ça un homme, un vrai ! Chaque médaille ayant son revers, l'autorité mène le plus souvent à ce genre d'isolement qui conduit les Empereurs sur des rochers et les célibataires dans les cuisines. »
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.