Joe, international poker player, is considered an irresponsible family-chief. His two sons drifted into gangsterism. The older dies from it. The younger, Manu, was sentenced to death. Joe takes on to a terrific battle in order to save his son. Will he succeed in it For life has more than one trick in its well-worn sleeve.
广告公司为了使代言的饮料广告畅销，要求三菱车队在巴黎至达喀尔的拉力赛中使用当红明星吉井。但是三菱车队的负责人却希望能使用以前的队员本金，本金以前由于和车队领导起了冲突而退出了车队，现在住在芬兰。本金拒绝回到车队参加比赛，因为他不想回到日本看别人的脸色过活，他喜欢随心所欲的生活。
达喀尔拉力赛开始了，吉井作为车队的一员参加了三菱车队。本金也成为拉力赛的工作人员，负责收容比赛途中退出的选手。本金的前妻慧子和现在的丈夫一名西班牙斗牛士也参加了达喀尔拉力赛。一直喜欢吉井的模特西子也偷偷的搭上了本金的大卡车随同他们一起进入了沙漠。
比赛途中由于三菱车队的赛车出了问题，不得已必须拆除一辆车的油管换到另一辆车上，车队的队长水木做出了自己退出比赛确保吉井他们的赛车，并要求其他人必须听从本金的指挥。吉井在沙漠中见到了西子，却责怪她不该到这里，让她离开。
在车队不断前行...
Police inspector Léonetti, a tough, efficient policeman, has been sent to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas. The duo are soon assigned a very difficult mission: to find a man whose evidence is instrumental in convicting a murderer. They start searching throughout Paris.
Van Ekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up, to get a very valuable diamond, so big it's named Titan. Riquet was to be his second-in-command, but a rival gang shoots him down before the big day. Marsen, Riquet's friend, substitutes for him. Franoise, the companion of another gang member, will compromise the attack to the vault, but eventually they get...
Under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques, pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman's widow. But the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison.
