Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

• Sputnik
• Pyramide Productions
• Matti Pellonpää
• Evelyne Didi
• André Wilms
• Kari Väänänen
• Christine Murillo
• Jean-Pierre Léaud
• Carlos Salgado
• Alexis Nitzer