Michel Rousseau est un jeune lad jockey orphelin qui vit dans un haras et est tombé amoureux d'Angel Rock, un pur-sang avec lequel il rêve de remporter le célèbre Prix d'Amérique. Un jour, au cours d'un entraînement, il « pousse » son cheval et ne peut éviter l'accident. Le membre fracturé, l'animal est destiné à l'abattoir. A force d'obstination et grâce au soutien de Véronique, la fille des propriétaires du haras, Michel réussira à remettre Angel Rock sur pied.

1985 film by Serge Pénard

Pierre, a young man in his thirties, grew up with his two brothers in a city in the suburbs of Paris. He still lives there today with his wife, Deborah. His everyday life is divided between a job where he is exploited, discussions with his friends and brothers, family meals and unpreventable altercations with the cops.

Two young men, Zim and Jean-Pierre, both sentenced for a minor offence, recognize one another when they are released from prison on the same day. One wants to reform, but his friend wants to stay a crook. The first one gets a job and begins improving his life, while the young criminal ends up incarcerated for stealing cars.

Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.