[2] Alexandre (Vincent Perez) feels disillusioned with his fiancée, Laure (Marine Delterme), whose idea of romance is a pair of slippers for Valentine's Day.

Back at his apartment, Laure tries to reignite their relationship by dressing as an Italian call girl, but the attempt falls flat.

Laure's father's gloomy talk of Alexandre joining the funeral business and the bleak future of marriage discourages him further.

To preserve the excitement of unfulfilled desire, Alexandre vows to court Fanfan forever without revealing his feelings or engaging physically.

However, when he toasts to their "friendship," Fanfan is disappointed and leaves to meet her friend Paul, a sculptor doing a nude study of her.

Back from Italy, Fanfan surprises Alexandre by bringing Paul along on a weekend trip, making him jealous.

Fanfan confronts Alexandre, and he confesses that he didn’t chase the bus because he knew their relationship would eventually lose its spark.

The film topped the box office on its opening weekend in France, playing at 204 screens and selling 188,577 admissions.

The second part of the film also contains some moments of artistic brilliance, notably the Cocteau-esque sequence in which the two lovers attempt to make contact through a mirrored partition.