On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.

Isabelle Huppert
as Mélanie

Jean-Louis Trintignant
as Vic

Christian Benedetti
as Carlo

Bertrand Bonvoisin
as Carpentier

Philippe Clévenot
as Henri Valette

Martine Costes
as Julie's Mother

Evelyne Didi
as Evelyn Cowan

Jean-Michel Dupuis
as Philip Cowan

Éric Frey
as Denis Miller

Bernard Freyd
as Havermal