Actor-director Pierre Étaix’s masterful slapstick is the star of this clever physical comedy. Étaix plays a business tycoon already fed up of his fortune by the time the stock market crashes in 1929. After a chance encounter with a long-lost love, he runs away with her to join the circus. Their son rises from the rank of child clown to movie star, only to learn what his father did: that money can’t buy happiness.