After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger was created redundant. Shocked, he tries suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, helping to make Henri realise that his own life has any meaning. However, when he moves straight back to the pub to cancel the arrangement, he discovers it has been demolished - and there's no way he'll get in touch with the killer...