The differences in legalities and cultural mores of French and Americans regarding sex, love, marriage, religion and family bonds are presented through the interactions of two families related by marriage. American Isabel Walker heads to Paris to visit her half-sister, poet Roxeanne de Persand, who is early in the pregnancy of her second child. Isabel arrives to find that Roxy's French husband, Charles-Henri de Persand, has just left Roxy, the sisters both eventually further learning that it is because he has fallen in love with another woman, who is herself married. Roxy and Charles-Henri deal with their break-up, which Roxy does not want but must face the legal consequences of, including determining the ownership of what may be a valuable French painting that has been casually in the Walker family for years, but which Roxy has had in her possession since she got married. Meanwhile, Isabel begins to explore all that France has to offer, which includes concurrently embarking on sexual...

Starring:

Kate Hudson , Jean-Marie Lhomme , Naomi Watts , Esmée Buchet-Deàk , Jean-Jacques Pivert , Melvil Poupaud , Catherine Samie , Samuel Labarthe , Leslie Caron , Thierry Lhermitte , Nathalie Richard , Samuel Gruen , Peter Wyckoff , Sandrel Lonnoy , Glenn Close

Genre:

Drama, Romance, Comedy