A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet| an inconspicuous and shy bank employee| one day
successfully invites Marie-Paul| a young woman he hadn't known before| in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his
surprised friend Claude about the incident| the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas' life. First of all| he
procures him to Roberte| a professor of philosophy's frustrated and bored wife...