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Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
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Laura Benson
Elsie Wellman
Adolph Green
Joey Wellman
Linda Lavin
Lena Apthrop
Gérard Depardieu
Christian Gauthier
Geraldine Chaplin
Terry Amstrong
François-Eric Gendron
Lionel Cohn-Martin
Georges Fricker
Roxy Darcel
John Ashton
Harry Dempsey
Caroline Silhol
Dora Dempsey
Micheline Presle
Isabelle Gauthier
Patrick Bonnel
Le boucher
Charlotte Bonnet
La femme chauffeur de taxi
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