Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

O văduvă tânără descoperă că soțul ei i-a lăsat niște mesaje pentru a o ajuta să-și aline durerea și să înceapă o viață nouă.

Doinel se înrolează în armată, dar e destituit pentru insubordonare. În scurt timp, el se angajează ca paznic de noapte într-un hotel și, după prima tură, e deja concediat. Apoi acceptă să fie detectiv particular și se îndrăgostește de doamna Tabard.

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.