Irène Ismaïloff

The inappropriate and unbalanced relationship between Vanessa, 14, and writer Gabriel Matzneff, 50, in the 80s.

Brigitte and Xavier let routine and weariness set in after their children leave their cattle farm. When Brigitte is wooed by a young man, she takes a trip to Paris to see him, but things do not go according to plan.

Pierre, a sixty-year-old technician on an offshore oil rig, has become a misanthropic loner. He had a wife but she died after a breakdown whose seriousness he had more or less deliberately overlooked. He had a lover, beautiful con...