Odette Toulemonde has nothing objectively to be happy about, but she is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy but is not. Odette, in her awkward forties, between a son who is a hairdresser, a daughter stuck in puberty, works in the cosmetics department of a department store by day and sews feathers on costumes for Parisian magazines by night. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she thinks – she owes her optimism. The Parisian writer, rich and seductive, is going to land in her life in an unexpected way. Story of the comic and whimsical meeting of two atypical castaways that everything separates
Odette Toulemonde
Odette Toulemonde has nothing objectively to be happy about, but she is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy but is not. Odette, in her awkward forties, between a son who is a hairdresser, a daughter stuck in puberty, works in the cosmetics department of a department store by day and sews feathers on costumes for Parisian magazines by night. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she thinks – she owes her optimism. The Parisian writer, rich and seductive, is going to land in her life in an unexpected way. Story of the comic and whimsical meeting of two atypical castaways that everything separates
