Helene (Anemone) is looking for her love of 25 years ago. She is 43 now, was 18 then. She has returned to the last place she saw him, a large house in the country. Once there, she finds Ariane making love to Matthieu. Matthieu is Sabine's husband; Sabine is younger than he is, she wants a child, Matthieu doesn't. Also at the time Helene arrives, she finds Lena leaning on a door, in tears. she has a lover 23 years younger than her, named Marc. Lena also has a child, Michel, a bright lad. The household also includes Cecile, who thought she was invited to babysit someone, and instead sits at the piano playing light classical tunes by the composer Gottschalk. When Helene is able to get the attention of these busy people, she confides her purpose to them, and in this bedroom farce they all agree to do whatever they can to help her.