Furious because of Marie's infidelity, Vincent (Richard Bohringer) kills both his wife and her lover with his low-flying plane and the judge very surprisingly declares Vincent not guilty. But this act will come back to haunt Vincent when François seeks his help for his nephew Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) by killing his unfaithful wife Marie: Paul has been serially unfaithful but, hey, let's uphold the double standard. Vincent isn't happy about the debt he's inherited, but has no real choice but to go by it, so it's all down to finding Marie. Which isn't easy, and this is the road movie part, where Paul starts hallucinating, their car is trashed, but they eventually find Marie in Africa.
Bang! She's dead, although Vincent didn't aim her way and Marie pretended. And then Vincent meets her in a supermarket, Marie then visits the trio and we're back to the beginning of this post.
Before the quotation in the first paragraph, François, sending Vincent out on an errand, tells him not to forget 'la boule de vanille', and he repeats this, as if it were of the utmost importance. Why is vanilla so important? We're reminded of Antoine (Jean Rochefort) in Leconte's Le Mari de la coiffeuse saying 'La mort est jaune citron et sent la vanille' ('Death is lemon yellow and smells of vanilla.') What?
Not one of Leconte's best films, but... I don't know.
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