We never learn what his industry and business is all about, while we have reasons to suspect it is in the field of cars, and throughout the film we expect something to happen, which it never does. It is all about business and business talk at board meetings, there is no drama here, but Vincent Lindon makes a great character of the industrialist who is up to his neck in crises, both domestic and in his job, his only son has been temporarily confined to a ward after having threatened his teacher with dividers, his daughter has her business in America, and his wife is filing for divorce, while his employees are worried about the future of his business, as they fear some notice, and his boss in America of his multinational enterprise is worried about the way he is handling the European branch. We get deeply involved in all his troubles and fear some disaster to occur to release the tension, and it does, but with eloquence, and Vincent Lindon at least manages to save his face and his family. It is actually a story of honour, and as such it is of great interest, although you get as much fed up with all his business as his wife does.