Solange is miserable: she's stopped grinning she says . She's got fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting a stranger, Stephane, to be her lover. Even though he has every budget ordered in alphabetical sequence and moans to Mozart, Stephane neglects to cheer Solange. She knits. She's housework. Everyone, for example their neighbor a vegetable seller, agrees she needs a youngster, yet she fails to conceive by either lover. The three require a job managing a children's summer camp in the place where they meet with Christian, the precocious son of their neighborhood mill manager. It is