Virginie
Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
Claire
En Le coup du berger (Jaque al pastor) se lleva al límite la semejanza entre una partida (de tablero) y otra (de la vida). Claire (Virginie Vitry), vive una vida matrimonial con Jean (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) que la hace tener un amante, Claude (Jean-Claude Brialy). Parece ser que llevan ya un tiempo jugando de esa manera hasta que Claude hace un regalo a Claire que ella no puede llevar a casa porque su marido se daría cuenta o sospecharía de lo que está sucediendo con su matrimonio; así que los amantes buscan y encuentran la “estrategia perfecta” para poder engañar al marido sin que se dé cuenta.
