It stars Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin and Christiane Millet.

He is told that in order to conduct business with a group of Iranians, he must learn English, so he hires Clara (Alvaro) to teach him.

The couple goes to the theatre, where their niece is performing in a production of Bérénice, accompanied by the driver, Bruno (Chabat), and Castella's temporary bodyguard, Franck (Lanvin).

After Bérénice, Clara goes to the bar with her friends, including Antoine and Valerie, and their conversation reveals that she is afraid of never working again; after all, she is forty years old.

Bruno, whose fiancée is doing an internship in the United States, spends the night with Manie, who, it turns out, sells drugs on the side and is frequently visited by clients.

Previously uninterested in theater and reluctant about seeing a play rather than having dinner in a restaurant, Castella attends another of Clara's performances and develops a fascination with her bohemian lifestyle.

At the bar with Clara's friends, they joke with him that Henrik Ibsen is a great comic playwright, as well as other dramatists like Tennessee Williams.

Castella and Angelique are drifting apart, which is made clear when she moves the painting he bought from Clara's friend.

He retorts that he can't stand living in a candy store, referring to Angelique's interior decorating.

Franck's contract is finished, and Bruno reveals that the corrupt politician he had tried to send to prison was finally caught by his former partner.

"[2] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".