Outwardly, Jean-Luc's (Charles Berling) life appears enviable: He's a successful Versailles gerontologist with a beautiful young wife, a loyal assistant and mistress and a brother who acts as his chauffeur. But his controlled existence is disrupted by the sudden reappearance of his father, Maurice (Michel Bouquet), who walked out on his family two decades earlier -- and it's not long before father and son come to venomous blows.