Béatrice Romand

Magali is a wine grower in the South of France. She’s a widow and her best friend, Isabelle, decides that she must find her a new husband. She puts an advert in a lonely hearts column, presenting herself as a friend, and vets a suitable candidate, Gerald.

On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.

Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.

Delphine’s traveling companion cancels two weeks before her holiday, so Delphine, a Parisian secretary, is at loose ends. She doesn’t want to travel by herself, but has no boyfriend and seems unable to meet new people. Thus begins a summer looking inside herself, and outside—for love.

Fact and fiction blur when a writer’s wife returns from Germany with a young man in tow, leading to an affair and a dustup with a group of gangsters.