Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.

A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.

A young woman finds an isolated inn is the base of a gang of smugglers

A retired woman befriends her neighbor without suspecting that it is her own daughter whom she abandoned at birth.