Henri Brunovilliers is a notary public. He has always lived a well-ordered, rather boring life. Just once in his life, he’d like to do something illegal. Not a serious crime, no, but still… Suddenly it has become a vital necessity: he simply has to break a rule. After a lot of thought he has figured out what his act of bravura will be: he’ll take the metro without a ticket! It’s true that Henri Brunovilliers has a lot to make up for: a dreary but complicated family, a job that he didn’t exactly choose and that bores him to tears, a lot of questions about his own past… And this superficial, predictable life that has been going on the same way for so long. His newfound hunger for freedom surprises and excites him, and his seemingly insignificant act will have major consequences. Along the way, our apartment-house hero will meet other people like himself who are each following their own path to freedom through small acts of rebellion. But can we really throw off our chains and escape our fates? Les Petites Rébellions is funny, absurd and bracing! A light-hearted mockery of the rat race.

One fine day, fed up with his dreary life, Henri, a 50-year-old notary public, decides to do something daring…