In the run up to a new tourist season, the Hotel Joule is being reorganised and the hotel staff have been brought up to the full complement with the hiring of the young manager, Miss Ambra. Totally absorbed in her role, Miss Ambra allows herself no free time, performing her function with rigour and arrogance. In the long run, her intransigence and obsessive perfectionism in carrying out tasks that are beyond her remit alienates her colleagues and loses their sympathy, leading her to take over all the jobs of the entire hotel until she loses the limits of her own identity and confuses her role with that of her colleagues