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，他决议坚持一切——孩子、友人、冤家、爱情与遗憾——去美国从零末尾之后，他率领“新诙谐艳舞团”（New Burlesque ）回到故土中止巡演。艳舞团团员因Joachim 而对法国巴黎充溢向往。幽默的扮演和脱衣舞娘丰满的身体令男女老少沉溺不已。虽然下榻的旅馆伟大不堪，运用的电梯音乐（musique d’ascenseur ）乏善可陈，又缺乏资金，女演员依然营建出了新奇、热情而欢乐的气氛。但是，他们决议在巴黎演出压轴戏，将巡演推向高潮的梦想分裂了：Joachim 的老“冤家”背叛了他，取消了其预定的演戏场所。巴黎之行似乎注定来去匆匆，过去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...
