When you're out of work you have to keep busy. That's what Vincent (the fascinatingly opaque Aurelien Recoing) does after he's laid off from his position as a white-collar drudge. He drives around, dallies in corporate conference rooms, dreams up a new company and sells shares in it to his family — all because he is loath to tell anyone he's been sacked. This dark, deadpan comedy plumbs the shallows of a man who has been defined by work, and loses his bearings when he loses his job.
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