Nelly Borgeaud

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

A tobacco planter on Réunion Island (Jean-Paul Belmondo) becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman (Catherine Deneuve) he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.