La Rodilla de Clara

After spending several years abroad, Jean-Louis, an engineer recently settled in Clermont-Ferrand, longs for some peace and quiet. At the church he attends every Sunday, he notices a young blonde woman whom he begins to fancy. He decides that she will become his wife. Then, while at a local restaurant, he meets Vidal, an old school friend, now a philosophy professor at Clermont-Ferrand University. Vidal invites him to spend Christmas Eve at Maud?s house. A doctor and divorcee, the dark-haired Maud, a beautiful, fascinating and single woman, is not impervious to Jean-Louis?s charms.

A young man tells the following tale: after finally meeting a local girl with whom he?s been secretly in love, she disappears. Finding himself with time on his hands, he spends his days searching for her. A young and pretty assistant in a bakery seems to be attracted to him. To deflect boredom, he decides to seduce her. Just when she is about to give into his charms, the first woman turns up again, her ankle wrapped in a bandage.