Odette Toulemonde he finally meets his favorite writer, Balthazar Balsan, rich and seductive, but on the edge of depression. In her modest life as a saleswoman in the cosmetics section of a department store, she tries to convey the happiness she feels to him through reading her novels.
Catherine Frot and Albert Dupontel are the stars of this comedy directed by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the author of the novel by "Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koran".