While constantly transmits radio news from Paris in revolt (the turbulent May '68), in the South West of France dies of heart attack, the octogenarian lady Vieuzac, owner of a beautiful villa with a wood and vineyards. Milou's son, a sixty who had always lived there (with Adele, the maid-mistress) and who loves the countryside, is quick to call the other heirs. Then there's his brother Georges (journalist now Giubilato), with the alluring English wife (Lily), Camille, daughter of Milou same, with three restless children, as well as Claire (who is the nephew of the deceased), a young dancer on the following which is morbidity. And the fight begins with the arrival of the heirs, completely ready to divide, selling all the spoils of Madame Vieuzac, while Camille, so as not to waste time, snatch one of the finest links in the grandmother. What resists the idea of \u200b\u200ba total division into three, however, Milou, who sees collapse of his world, and everything becomes more complicated when the lawyer read out a letter that the deceased left to his faithful servant quarter of the capital: with the unexpected and unpleasant result that the division of the inheritance must be made for four . The fate of its assets, however, weigh several concerns: the Parisian news are doubts about the order and properties, are preparing for hard times for France and many people, even in the province, sheltering in the hills scared. There are also Milou and his family, along with a pair of terrified neighbors, plus the young son of the first bed of Georges (Alain Pier) and a trucker locked in place, being on strike at petrol stations and even the services of the funeral, so the corpse of Madame Vieuzac, after three days, is still at home. To hear Pier Alain, for the rich and selfish hopes of very few remaining. More than frightened, they think now that the heirs at the end of the earth, that furniture and the house with few prospects for adequate and prompt realization. Milou ago while digging a grave for his mother at the foot of a big tree. Then, when the radio announced that De Gaulle has finally taken firmly in the lead, the rest would quickly return to their homes (Pier Alain, however, goes to Paris with the dancer), and the only one who will Milou tried to save the house with the lush land that has always believed. Most likely, calmatesi water, there must be a division, but in the meantime he remains there, all alone with the ghost mother.
