Tide Of Life incorporates all of the traditional soap ingredients – villains, unrequited love, ambition, murder and money.
[1] Claude Jade wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "With the change in management at France 2, it was decided to abandon Cap des Pins, which ended up in the doldrums.
By giving pride of place to the stories of teenagers, sometimes to the detriment of other characters, and by multiplying the roles, did the scriptwriters lose the thread of the action and forget the initial purpose?
Viewers, who had missed an episode, may have had difficulty understanding the plot, to which the writers' imagination brought unexpected twists and turns, but when the broadcast of Cap des Pins ended, many of them wrote to the channel to ask for a sequel.
In my opinion, this adventure was a bit of a missed opportunity, and that's a shame, because there was plenty of material for a real, high-quality French soap opera.