 A director in his midlife-crisis (Jan Bucquoy) wants to start a new movie and he invites twelve actresses in his flat in Brussels. Every actress tries to convince him of her talent. The director tries to seduce them at the same time but this is not what they want, or at least they do not want to give this impression. When the movie starts, the choosen ones develop into nasty characters who do not listen to their director, f.i. Evelyne quarrels with him (Evelyne Letawe). The making of the movie turns into chaos with one of the male characters (Noël Godin) running after one of the actresses into a river. At the same time the director has to make a travel to Bali to bring back one of his favourites: Gail (Gail Verhasselt). The movie is full of quotations of famous writers (Guy Debord) and the title of the movie is the title of a book by Lucien Israël (La Jouisssance de l  Hystérique). The director makes public orations and explains his analysis of capitalism. His call for the revolution is pathetic and it makes the situation at the filmset even worse... Like most directors he tends to be ego-maniacal but his choosen actresses don t accept this!