A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she stands well above many of her preceding romantic partners, that is an added dimension to consider. As she finds and drops a series of possibilities -- a free-wheeling sociologist, an up-tight intellectual, and a dentist fixated on sports -- she begins to wonder if this simple quest may turn out to be an impossibility after all.

Karl Kraemer and his wife Maria, a formally well known singer who suddenly has lost her voice, are visited by their grown up children and at this family gathering they have to face unresolved conflicts of the past.