The film is set in a world, the Popular Democratic Republic of Bubunne, in which women hold the power and men are forced to wear veils and stay at home.

Adèle une jeune trentenaire se fait quitter par Mathieu, l’amour de sa vie. Anéantie, suffoquée, Adèle ne veut plus qu’une chose : mourir. Rachel, une cousine éloignée, la prend en…

Sonny lives with his retarded older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in.