获得打字比赛冠军的少女从乡下来到巴黎，她虽然努力打字努力工作，却厌烦生活的一成不变和未婚夫的乏味。她曾尝试白天工作、晚上疯狂，但姐夫劳累过度的遭遇加上自己精力也不能应付工作的压力，最终令她只能在工作中寻找乐趣。如今看来，《过度劳累》应算是一部积极的现实题材，雅克.多尼奥-瓦克罗兹在短短20分钟的时间内表达了他对上班族如何平衡工作与娱乐的看法，其中又有社会折射，实属难得。

Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.