A pequena aldeia de Asterix e Obelix é a pedra no sapato do imperador Júlio César: de toda a França, a aldeia gaulesa é o único local que não é controlado pelo Império Romano. O maior problema, segundo os comandantes da legião romana, é a força descomunal dos gauleses, conseguida através de uma poção mágica preparada pelo druida Panoramix. Entretanto, o comandante Detritus tem um plano para derrotar os gauleses: capturar Obelix e o druida Panoramix.
A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
The head of an aristocratic family died, so everyone gather to mourn him and see who gets what from his estate. Greed, lust, love and class conflict between the family and their payed servants create a real mess rather quickly.