A Parisian guy shaves his moustache and no one notices. When he irately mentions this to his wife, she says that he hasn't had a moustache for fifteen years, and begs him to please drop the matter, because he is scaring her.

A few days later his father calls and leaves a message on their answering machine to confirm their lunch date. The guy hears the message and erases it, but when he later mentions the lunch date to his wife she looks at him funny. Apparently his father is dead. After that, his wife and boss try to have him committed, but he escapes to Hong Kong, where he rides the ferries for a few days.

The whole time this stuff is happening there are strange clues that he did really shave his moustache. Did he?