In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business, where he would have to spend the night. If he succeeds in reassuring his young wife, who has a presentiment of being separated for the first time from him, the first night spent in his host's house will topple everything.

本片又名《总统失踪记》，由法国国宝级的著名喜剧大师——路易·德·菲耐斯主演。他通过夸张的形体动作和表情，生动地刻画出了法国市民阶层的典型性格。
赛普提姆先生（路易·德·菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰）是一家高档法国餐厅的经理，虽然为人又自私多疑、狡猾多变。但在酒店管理上却确实精明能干，对待前来用餐的客人也十分热情，时刻遵守餐馆操守，服务守则。一次，总统在赛普提姆先生的饭店参加宴会中突然失踪了。所有人都急坏了，赛普提姆先生和大家一起处寻找总统。在寻找总统的过程中发生了一系列啼笑皆非的事情，原来总统是设计逃脱宴会，为自己找个假期！

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".