The main character is over 30. He works as a proofreader in a publishing house and writes prose. He has a mistress, Sabine, a music record saleswoman, and divorces his wife Christine, and their divorce turns out to be the first consensual divorce in France.
His life goes on as usual, until one day Colette, a former lover of Duanel, does not fall into the eyes of his novel, in many ways autobiographical ...