A man deeply in debt accepts an easy, well-paying job without knowing the risks.

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Gabriel (Jérémie Renier recently seen in Cloclo) has been fired and lost so much money at poker that he has nothing left for his daughter Juliette’s lunch money. Providence intervenes as a former colleague offers him a well-paying job: all he has to do is answer a phone between 10 am and 6 pm. Gabriel arrives at work to empty halls. He spends his day bored, sitting in front of a phone that never rings. One day he’s asked to deliver a briefcase to China, in a private jet. And he’s told he must never, ever open the briefcase – or else. On his second mission, this time to Brussels, he is late with the delivery and is severely punished as a result. He finally understands what he’s gotten himself into when, on his next mission, his briefcase is stolen...

What’s inside those black briefcases? The interest raised by Jean-Baptiste Andrea‘s thriller soon becomes moot as the movie sinks increasingly lower into implausibility – without even a single drop of humor. In a world where money and scrupulousness are good business, even the most artful entrepreneur would have figured out how to supply something infinitely precious to those who already have everything. There may even be a less superficial way to illustrate the idea.