Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Ticky Holgado, Yann Collette, Stéphane Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Alexandra Vandernoot, Lionel Vitrant, Alexandre Brasseur, Didier Cauchy

France, 1815.  With Napoleon in exile after his defeat at Waterloo, the Royalists seize the moment and take control of Paris, intending to restore the monarchy.  In the evening of July 6th, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, an eminent politician after the Revolution, secretly invites Joseph Fouché, head of the French police, to dine with him.  Despite their mutual dislike for one another and their opposing political views, the two men agree on a course of action that will save their country from civil war.