Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
as Elsie Wellman
as Joey Wellman
as Lena Apthrop
as Christian Gauthier
as Terry Amstrong
as Lionel Cohn-Martin
as Roxy Darcel
as Harry Dempsey
as Dora Dempsey
as Isabelle Gauthier
as Le boucher
as La femme chauffeur de taxi
as Laureline
as Tintin
as Valentina
as Bateman
as L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
as Le Spectre
as L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier
as La jeune femme qui chante
as La petite fille de la place du village
as Spirit
as La domestique du manoir
as Elektra
as La jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier
as Catwoman
as Corto Maltese
as Le Concombre Masqué
as Mme Roget
as La boulangère
as La jeune femme fatiguée
as Le chauffeur de taxi
as La secrétaire de Gauthier
as Le garagiste
as Le jeune homme dans l'avion
as La cliente de la marchande de légumes
