François Gautier is a penny pincher! Saving brings him joy, paying makes him break out in a sweat. His life is regulated around the single goal of never spending a cent. But his life takes a whole other direction in a single day: he falls in love and discovers that he has a sixteen-year-old daughter he never knew about.

François is forced to lie in order to hide his terrible flaw, and hence his problems begin. Because lying can sometimes be costly. Very costly…