Isabelle Candelier

A young Parisian couple with Polish-Jewish roots makes their first trip to their ancestral homeland with very different outlooks and expectations.

Sébastien has only one ambition in life: doing nothing. His world is his couch. He would rather contemplate life than live it. But in today's world, he who does nothing, is nothing. So he has to do a little, something.

Boyhood friends, one wealthy, one poor, walk parallel paths as painter Paul Cezanne and writer Emile Zola leave Provence to conquer Paris’ art scene.