Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.
Jean-François Stévenin
as Simon
Patrick Bouchitey
as Dédé
Jean-Pierre Bisson
as Gérard
Laura Favali
as Nadine
Silvana de Faria
as la prostituée
Karine Nuris
as la sirène
Roland Blanche
as l'accoudé
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
as Félix, le patron du bistrot
Dominique Maurin
as le vagabond
Bernard Crombey
as le boucher
Patrick Fierry
as Jean-Loup
Anne Macina
as la femme de la voiture
