La mélancolie des paquebots

4 men, no longer very young, come to attend the funeral of their old friend. Only, a slight hitch: he isn't dead! Thus begins this improbable sideshow revue brought by old white men who have come to try something one last time, yet failing irresistibly in a disorderly sequence of poetic-political acts. They tried to save the world, or so they believed, but the solutions they devised fall flat.

In this slightly dilapidated cabaret, everything collapses—not just their illusions, but their bodies too. We watch these men fall, with irony and tenderness. Is this the end of a world? Perhaps it's good news. 5 fellow actors, old vagabond clowns who no longer have anything flamboyant about them, distant cousins of Bouvard and Pécuchet in their foolishness and stubbornness to keep trying regardless.

Failure as a comedic device to laugh at oneself while revealing the contradictions of our time: in this upside-down world, is it still possible to have ideals, and can one find a form of vitality in the ambient melancholy?