Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged....
Jacques est un joueur professionnel qui a fait un peu désordre dans les casinos. Angèle, elle, est capitaine des renseignements généraux, directrice de la brigade des jeux. Ils vivent depuis quelques années une liaison secrète. Un jour, Serge Vaudier, un obscur professeur de mathématiques, gagne au loto deux fois de suite, en prétendant avoir trouvé une théorie infaillible. Plus personne ne joue et l'Etat croupier vacille. Les renseignements généraux n'ont que quelques jours pour démasquer l'imposteur. Statistiquement, personne ne peut gagner au loto deux fois de suite sans avoir triché. Par les moyens traditionnels, on ne trouve rien, et Angèle est forcée de faire appel à un joueur, le seul qui puisse entrer dans la psychologie de Serge Vaudier et le confondre. C'est là que Jacques entre en jeu....
Man (Gianis Aggelakas), a mysterious man of the underworld, small time grifter and big time hard-man, who has an anarchic tendency to mumble and comment on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of kid, who is a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The five of them get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise..
The Loser Takes it All tells the story of Israeli band Ping Pong. Their song "Be happy" (Sameach) was chosen to the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. The band insists to raise Israeli and Syrian flags on stage in their song as a symbol to the peace Israeli and Syrians are wishing for. Head of the delegation and Israeli broadcast association threaten that the band will not perform..
