Mariages!

Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan, a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misanthrope of a master horseman and his horse

Sam is an atypical teacher who has been cured of cancer and faces life's challenges through her outspoken manner, especially from her three children, who don"t look upon her as reverentially as Sam's students.

Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends meet. One day they receive the utterly unexpected news that they are the sole inheritors of a wealthy neighbor, M. Guillemet, whom they have never met. Guillemet has left them his old townhouse along with all of his belongings, but with two conditions -- the first is that the dead man's papers be left untouched, and the second is that his live-in maid Clemence Richbourg remain employed at the estate. The Dorsets soon learn why they were the recipients of such strange generosity. Guillemet had set up a camera with a massive zoom lens pointing to their bedroom window. The couple is shocked and disgusted, but not enough to give up their new tony digs.

Valentine and Alex are married, both lawyers, specializing in family matters. In the exercise of their profession, they defend the divorce of the XXIst century: amicable, in the serenity and the respect of the other, preferably in alternating custody and in the blended family, far from the cased vases and the atrocious scenes of household of the previous generation. Until the day when, because of a banal adultery, their couple shatters. And the reality of the divorce catches up with them: no more fine words, just war.

Suffering from depression and marital problems, Alex mistakenly orders a life-size doll, whom he names "Monique". With the help of Monique, Alex turns his life around; however she soon becomes the envy of his friends and wife.