Virginie Desarnauts

Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father, Étienne, a literary star with scant interest in his daughter's life. Lolita finds little comfort in the attentions of her vocal coach, suspecting the woman is using her to meet her influential father. Étienne's second wife proves to be Lolita's only trustworthy ally in her private battle to find a sense of worth.

On an island, clones are secretly raised.

The attractive Béatrice Laune has a brilliant career, recently crowned with the award for best advertising creativity of the year. A well-deserved reward, as Béatrice has devoted her entire life to her work. The only fly in the ointment is that, for some time now, the young woman has been fainting every time she is confronted with a baby! The medical diagnosis attributes these episodes to a repressed desire to have a child as she approaches her 40th birthday. This situation disturbs Béatrice to the point where she becomes fixated on one idea: having a baby for her 40th birthday!

Soon to become first-time parents, Romain and Anna Corneaux leave Paris to move thirty kilometers away, to the town where Romain grew up. There, Romain reunites with his childhood friend Fred Maurin—who is married to the beautiful but superficial Séverine—his ever-present mother, and Daniel Poirot, the annoying friend from high school. Amid relationship conflicts, the hassles of daily life, and all of life’s little problems, Romain and Fred tirelessly pursue their quest for happiness…