Joey Wellman, an American comic artist from Cleveland currently greatly failed to remember in your home, sees France with his companion Lena to participate in an exhibit in Paris concerning the cartoon (bande dessinée) which includes his job. He also hopes to be fixed up with his daughter Elsie who has been a pupil in Paris for two years, in trip from the American society of which she sees her papa as a typical example. Elsie is naively obsessed with French literature, and is trying to safeguard an intro to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert yet likewise a lover for comic books. The meeting of papa and little girl goes severely, but Elsie is encouraged to join Joey and also Lena for the weekend at the lodge of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed pose party, all of the characters are made to reassess their present and previous partnerships.