Dejanira, a Brazilian dancer, takes the Maine-Océan train at Montparnasse station. Because she did not validate her ticket, she is confronted by two inflexible ticket inspectors and helped by a Parisian lawyer, who acts as her interpreter and whom she befriends. Like a comic Tower of Babel, the film unfolds around the miscommunications between characters of different nationalities, classes, and social positions, emphasizing the absurd nature and arbitrariness of these divisions.

4K restoration.

Paulo Branco receives the Leon Cakoff Prize at this 50th Mostra.