Plot

After a crappy heist, Max, their friend got caught. It was 20 years ago. Today, to celebrate the prescription, Max finally reveals to them where he stashed the loot.

On June 24, 1980, Max, Serge, Lucien and Henri attempted to rob the Cartier jewelry store in Place Vendôme. Grimaced in Hispanic, Lucien, a fake customer of the jewelry store, sets off a smoke bomb, allowing his accomplices, disguised as firefighters and equipped with a VSAV vehicle, to enter the smoky room and steal the jewelry, hidden in empty fire extinguishers. However, the alarm system having been modified without their knowledge, the alarm locks Max in the vault and the breakage fails. Max gets 25 years in prison for not having balanced his accomplices. 24 years later, Max dies in prison. The 3 accomplices exercise, year in and year out, various professions outside of France. Serge is a flea second-hand dealer in Montreal, freshly kicked out by his friend. Henri, inseparable from his vintage Fiat 130, is a luxury vehicle salesman in Geneva, committing blunder after blunder with customers. Lucien is a mediocre real estate agent in Ostend, Belgium, perpetually promising his wife a hypothetical trip to the islands, which he obviously cannot afford. All three of them receiving a letter from Maître Gatin, a notary in Paris, they meet in Place Vendôme, after a 25-year forced exile, not without boasting of "mythomaniac" and false successes, to find out the content of Max's will. His will states that the loot is still available, having been hidden in a sock under police seals. They will benefit from it on the sole reservation that the three accomplices "gauge" his son Rémy to judge if he is sufficiently "cave" (in middle slang meaning a foolish, candid, easily manipulated person) to deserve his share of the loot. . The circumstances unfortunately turning out differently than expected, the part of the loot, left in a suitcase in the station locker, is destroyed by the police, believing it to be a parcel bomb. Playing subterfuge with Rémy, giving him a suitcase falsely belonging to his late father, they can finally recover from the notary, their quota, which turns out in fact to be a plan for an extraordinary robbery. This involves breaking into the postal services and stealing taxpayer checks, sent to the public treasury during tax periods, and then demanding 10% of the amount stolen, under penalty of destruction of said checks. These three accomplices therefore go up the gang and recruit Max's son, Rémy, for the latter breakage: the robbery of the Public Treasury during their transit at the post office succeeds wonderfully, despite the fact that Laura saw Serge and Henri disguised as postman in a van made up of the Post Office. The ransom of 23,659,412 euros is paid in diamonds by the tax services, preferring not to spread the word about the hold-up, which would mean the scathing admission of state incompetence. However, a love affair upsets the smooth running of events and the diamonds are cornered by a third person, who will prove to be an accomplice, unsuspected by all, but protagonist since the start of this Mafia montage.