Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.

In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also is not married but live together. Out of the blue, Pierre feels Anne estranged with him and sooner she discloses that she is in love with another man. Pierre seems to accept her affair but their relationship rapidly deteriorates, and Pierre becomes violent with her.

Cécile is twenty. She is expecting a child from Pierre, who is thirty-five. She goes through her pregnancy with peace of mind. Quite unlike Pierre, who dreads the prospect of fatherhood... That is when Isabelle, an ex of Pierre's, turns up. Like Pierre, she is thirty-five and like Cécile, she dreams of becoming a mother. She wouldn't mind making up with her former lover. Wouldn't he be the perfect choice to sire her child?

In a small apartment, a couple wakes up on the morning of their wedding. She is happy and cheerful, he is nervous and tired. The couple prepares under the attentive and ironic gaze of an omnipresent and talkative choir.