A lover of painting and poetry, Mireille adapts to her work as a waitress at the cafeteria of the Beaux-Arts in Charleville while living on petty theft and trafficking in cigarette cartons.

A Dodo, a bird species extinct for the last 300 years, shows up mysteriously at the luxurious villa of a formerly wealthy family in Athens, dragging all the protagonists into a crazy round.

The Swiss population decides that there should only be one national language in the future. During the transition to monolingualism, federal policeman Walter Egli and his colleague have to deal with a group of opponents.