Silver-haired bachelor André Dussolier spends his afternoons haunting the cafés of Paris. Ostensibly a playwright and filmmaker, he acts more like a dejected, would-be lothario who has yet to learn how to detach himself from his conquests, modest as they are. Dragged to a hospital by his matchmaking sister to meet a woman (Emmanuelle Devos) whose recent childbirth apparently hasn't removed her from the dating pool, Dussolier realizes that Devos is an old flame, and begins to wonder if the child is his. Before he has much time to consider the issue, he follows a whim and introduces himself to a striking model/waitress nicknamed Aïe (Hélène Fillières), whose name translates as "ouch" and who wastes little time intensifying their bond. After unapologetically describing the difficulties (logistical, not psychological) of being bulimic, she challenges him to think her odd. "I'm totally normal. I'm not weird at all," she says. "I try to be weird to draw attention to myself." The evidence suggests otherwise, however, as Dussolier's potential new love reveals more levels of weirdness as their relationship progresses. Written and directed by Fillières' sister Sophie Fillières, the film is ultimately just another strained and unsatisfying love triangle, but its moments of deadpan weirdness redeem it. As Hélène Fillières gobbles pastries and declares her devotion to Dussolier without a hint of emotion crossing her face, he fights a constant struggle to remain unaffected, little realizing that stranger revelations await him. As her sister does in front of the camera, Sophie Fillières keeps a straight face behind it, letting the action play out in long takes, adding virtually no extraneous commentary. She may not have much new to say about the relationships between men and women, but like her protagonist, her way of expressing it becomes disarmingly involving.