On his way through Paris, Jérôme Varenne, who has lived in Shanghai for ten years, visits his mother to introduce her to his fiancée, Cheng Li. He finds out the family manor in Ambray still has not been sold in the wake of his father’s death, due to a suit between city hall and the potential buyer, a childhood friend. So Jérôme goes to Ambray to sort things out, unaware that old memories lie in wait and that he is about to sir up a family crisis…

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The good news is that Families with her lightness, her energy and her sensual haughtiness. Despite being the least known of the cast, Vacth is the real star of this otherwise simplistic movie.