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Marie-Jeanne Bodin, weary of provincial tedium, decides her son Christian must marry a wealthy heiress. She identifies the perfect candidate—the daughter of a Parisian industrialist—and the pair embark on a journey to the capital to arrange this marriage of convenience. Their trip devolves into a series of absurd misadventures: from attempts to pass off their rustic home as a château to disastrous encounters with high society. Christian, who dreams of simple love, finds himself trapped between his mother's ambitions and a cascade of social blunders. The film satirizes class pretension and familial aspiration through the lens of French farce. The script balances coarse humor with warm irony, painting a portrait of provincial France colliding with metropolitan conventions. Dialogue is rich with puns and situational jokes, while characters reveal themselves through their inability to adapt to an alien environment.