André Duhamel

Four partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the desert in a truck.

Slackers in their 20s gather for a pre-Thanksgiving party and find themselves facing the end of the world in ensemble comedy that offers thought fodder concerning the plight of a generation that has been so overshadowed by the hype surrounding the baby boomers that they feel there are no frontiers of reality left to explore. All of the guests know each other from their high school days and have grown up to take wildly divergent paths, many of which are observed before the fateful gathering, hosted by the strangely devilish Kurt Swan, a convicted killer.

Alphonse and his wife Zulma hold the 421, a tavern in the outskirts of Lille, in the North of France. It is always full of regulars who play cards there and drink gin and exchange words in ch'timi, the local patois. But there has been trouble lately: felonies have been committed in the surroundings. So who can be those two strangers who have just rented a room each at the 421? Each sets about doing a bit of detective work.