Because her mother prefers her dog, a young woman imagines that the animal dies. She goes to Paris to bury it alone one night. There she meets a man who explains to her that a dead dog is worth a lot of money. They tried to sell him to a Chinese restaurant, a furrier and many others. Each time, the young woman tells a funny story, a dog story. When they fail, the young woman decides to bury the dog and the man wonders if the young woman has a problem with a dog.