Joachim 是一个生活在巴黎、事业成功的电视编剧。四十岁生日的临晨，他决议放弃一切——孩子、友人、敌人、爱情与遗憾——去美国从零开始。之后，他带领“新滑稽艳舞团”（New Burlesque ）回到故乡进行巡演。艳舞团团员因Joachim 而对法国巴黎充满神往。幽默的扮演和脱衣舞娘饱满的身段令男女老少沉迷不已。虽然下榻的旅馆平凡不堪，使用的电梯音乐（musique d’ascenseur ）乏善可陈，又缺乏资金，女演员仍然营造出了别致、热心而欢喜的气氛。但是，他们决议在巴黎演出压轴戏，将巡演推向高潮的愿望破裂了：Joachim 的老“朋友”背叛了他，取消了其预订的演戏场所。巴黎之行似乎注定来去匆匆，曩昔种种伤感的回想突然被揭开……　　Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets to start a new life in America. But he returns with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom he has filled with romantic dreams of a tour of France, of Paris!　　Traveling from town to town, despite the cheap hotel rooms and lack of money, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism that wins an enthusiastic response from men and women alike.　　But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. An obligatory return journey to the capital violently reopens the old wounds of his past...