Les Grands Théâtres

An overly spendthrift art gallery owner discovers at his own expense that his relatives, whom he thought to have cheated, are even more greedy than he.

The story of a bad-tempered, battered actor who is too fond of whiskey who will have to coach a beginner actress for an audition for Romeo and Juliet. A fictitious audition and a meeting arranged and engineered by the actor's brother who wants him to regain a taste for the profession.