An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life.

The arrival of Madeleine, daughter of Maurice, will upset the upcoming off-season of Marcelin, Raoul and Yoyo, three southern half-thug, half-lazy, under-proletarian boys, who live off unemployment. In contact with this young woman the three friends will question their sad life and decide to leave. But one does not escape so easily from Baie des Anges...

Every Sunday, Mary, Alice and Joan, three long-time friends, find themselves at the pool to talk about their love affairs. Mary, who is a stockbroker, leads her love life with meetings. One night she is raped by Franck in a nightclub toilet. The young woman then discovers she is pregnant. Alice, a student dominated by an authoritarian father, she has difficult relationship with men. She meets a painter who wants to make her his model. Jeanne lives a dreary relationship with her husband and decides to work and earn a living through prostitution.