
Khireddine Medjoubi as Cafe owner's son.In despair at losing him, Isabelle throws herself in front of a car.

Isabelle and Lucie have followed him and see him arrested. Seeing Thibault in the street, he shoots him dead. Finding two pistols hidden in the squat, he heads off to kill the publisher. On getting a rejection note for his book, he goes berserk. Abandoning home and family, Lucie then comes looking for him and joins them in the squat, after Pierre lies to her that Isabelle is no more than a sister and lies to Isabelle that Lucie is just a cousin. To promote his novel, he unwisely appears on television, where the studio audience boo him. After various mishaps, he and Isabelle sink to living in a squat, where they become lovers. Reduced to a cheap hotel, he gets to work on his novel. She tells him in a strong East European accent that she is his half-sister Isabelle and recounts her unhappy life.Ībandoning home, mother and fiancée, Pierre takes Isabelle to Paris and goes to the flat of Thibault, who throws him out.

She runs away, but he catches up with her. Driving through the forest, he is disturbed to see the vagrant woman, who is like a figure in his dreams. One night his mother tells him she has arranged a date for the marriage and he must tell Lucie. When Pierre turns to look, the woman runs away. In a bar he sees his stockbroker cousin Thibault, who says he can always stay in his apartment in Paris, but wonders why he is being followed by a young vagrant woman.

Pierre lives a carefree life with his widowed mother in a chateau in Normandy, writing his second novel and roaring off on his father's old motor bike to sleep with his fiancée Lucie in her parents' chateau.
