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O embaixador japonês está visitando Marselha para conhecer as táticas anti-gangs da polícia local. Durante a visita, entretanto, ele é seqüestrado por um grupo que está trabalhando para a Yakuza. O jovem oficial Emilien está determinado a resgatar o embaixador e a oficial Petra (sua namorada), que também foi seqüestrada, e restaurar a honra para seu departamento. O louco e veloz motorista de táxi, Daniel, é chamado para salvar o dia e ajudá-los com sua habilidade em dirigir em alta velocidade.
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Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
