 Odilon is excited about a letter announcing his former flame Astrid is finally coming all the way from Congo (Africa). Charles-Victor is entering a photographic portrait-contest, the winner of which will be published in Vogue- Betty accepts to model at his terms, Billy is convinced it s all just a pick-up ploy. Odilon asks C-V to photograph him, to send his picture to Astrid before she flies to Belgium; C-V makes the grave error to recruit clumsy Odilon as assistant in charge of the steam machine, so everything goes wrong. Once he has his photo, it gets lost...