In director Francois Truffaut's fourth film about Antoine Doinel, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Leaud) marries Christine (Claude Jade) and labors away at odd jobs. After learning of his impending fatherhood, Doinel sabotages his new happiness by obsessing over a young Japanese woman (Hiroko Berghauer). Truffaut enlivens Doinel's courtyard apartment with the bustle and business of neighbors and pays homage to comic auteur Jacques Tati.