Modest clerk Philippe de Kerfuntel receives news of the death of his uncle, a eccentric aristocrat who left a multimillion-dollar inheritance. In anticipation of falling from the sky of wealth, he goes to read the will in the company of similarly suffering relatives. However, the uncle again faded, leaving his heirs not a centime, except for the eldest in the family, who gets everything. Thus, between wealth and Philip stands a good dozen de Kerfuntels, poor as church mice and greedy for money.
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