Solange is depressed: she has stopped smiling, she investigates little, she says . She has fainting fits. By minding Stephane to be her fan, her husband Raoul seeks to rescue her. Even though he contains every pocket-book ordered in alphabetical order and moans to Mozart, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everybody, including their neighbor a vegetable seller, agrees that she needs a kid, yet she does not conceive with either lover. The three require a job managing a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the neighborhood factory manager's precocious son. It is