Tribute to Michel Piccoli

An ordinary accident on a country road, a car driving at excessive speed, rolls over several times... The victim is a forty-year-old architect, Pierre, well-to-do, separated from his wife Catherine, with a grown son and a mistress Helene. He is at the age where one asks oneself questions. Ejected from the car, lying in the grass of the meadow, half conscious but already dying without knowing it. Pierre relives a few episodes from his past, rediscovering the sweetness of the "things of life", until the moment when, dreaming with his family, next to the family boat, he sinks without recourse into death.

Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?