Based on the popular stage drama by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, the ensemble film revolves around several couples as they cope with their relationships and other entanglements amid a curious Paris snowstorm. Lambert Wilson and Laura Morante star in this story of intersecting lives. No stranger to Ayckbourn's work, director Alain Resnais crafted his 1993 film Smoking/No Smoking from another group of Ayckbourn plays.