Frédéric Andrei

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.

Pierre, a famous novelist suffering from writer's block, needs someone around to help him write. He desperately seeks an "assistant." Vincent is hired with one sole mission: to stay focused on what Pierre is writing. But what is the real subject of Pierre's novel? And is Vincent just an assistant, or is he the subject? The subject of the novel?