A couple with three hilarious, in an unknown, enjoyable and delusional feydeau! Barrelon, in his forties, is delighted to marry Valentine, a beautiful and young damoiselle of twenty years younger.

Because of a somewhat too much-boring town hall employee, the promised fiancé is married without his own free will, her future mother-in-law, Madame Jambart. This one, exacerbated by two years of widowhood finds a fever in love which she believed forever. Madame Jambart clearly refuses to divorce this husband who fell from heaven and the situation is happy with a young pretender, in love with Valentine.

But, a man whom everyone believed dead resurfaces, accompanied by a seal ...