Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?
Yves Montand
Michel Piccoli
Serge Reggiani
Gérard Depardieu
Umberto Orsini
Stéphane Audran
Antonella Lualdi
Marie Dubois
Catherine Allégret
Ludmila Mikaël
Pierre Maguelon
Betty Beckers
Nicolas Vogel
Yves Gabrielli
Myriam Boyer
Maurice Travail
Jean Lagache
Robert Le Béal
Maurice Auzel
Daniel Lecourtois
Ermanno Casanova
Lucienne Legrand
Carlo Nell
Pippo Merisi
Jean Capel
Mohamed Galoul
Jacques Richard
David Tonelli
Jean-Denis Robert
Marcel Portier
Henri Coutet
Sacha Bauer
André Cassan
Jacques Dhéry
Léo Peltier
Lucien Rodriguez
Jacqueline Dufranne
Claude Néron