Emile the African

Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio He has a wife Suzanne Or to be more accurate lets say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before allegedly to go buy a post stamp But now that their daughter Martine who lives with her is old enough to marry she resurfaces She confesses that in order to explain his absence she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa Not to disappoint his daughter Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be At the same time he will help Daniel Martines bashful fiancé not to become a henpecked husband like him