It stars Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mathilde Seigner, Audrey Tautou, Robert Hossein, Claire Denis, Micheline Presle, Emmanuelle Riva and Elli Medeiros.

She picks up men to have short sex flings, but no longer believes in love, having hurt her former boyfriend, Jacques, whom she occasionally contacts out of loneliness, but who is never available at the same time as her.

An unkempt younger man, Antoine, sees her at a café as she is being dumped by her latest fling, and falls in love with her.

He stands outside the beauty shop to watch for Angèle, follows her to a café and declares his love for her, but she for once is lost for words and does not immediately return his feelings.

Returning to Paris, Angèle goes to the hospital to visit Samantha, who had tried to commit suicide out of loneliness over Christmas.

However, the new girl, Evelyne, turns out to be a disaster, wanting to arrange the products by color rather than function, and eventually quits.