A middle-class woman engages a younger woman, Véronique, to give private tuition to her lazy and undisciplined son. Having made no progress in mathematics, Véronique attempts to get the young boy to write an essay, but without success. Why waste time writing in two pages what you can say in two lines? Also Véronique is bored and, at the end of the lesson, she goes away, while the boy returns to his toys.

Pour Un Maillot Jaune is a rare documentary about the 1965 Tour de France. The author, French film director Claude Lelouch, described it as a cinematic tribute.