A young couple become involved with a younger woman and a murder.
Novel-based crime drama about naive Timar, who goes to Gabon, French Equatorial Africa in the 1950s with dreams of making fortune. He's seduced by Adele, a shady owner of a local hotel, Libreville, who uses him to commit murder.
Jean is a wacky Frenchman living in New York. His best friend Max is a Francophile from Brooklyn. With the help of the mysterious Vita, Jean leads Max to believe he has been cuckolded "a la française."