Plot

Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.—Baldinotto da Pistoia

Comedy revolving around different types of relationships, motivated by a wide selection of feelings, between men and women. Couples range from teenagers, in love for the first time, to the mother of one of the principal characters, getting married for the first time at the age of 80.—Hartmut Ziche <ehess.fr>

A philandering lawyer turned businessman tries to make peace with his wife while his eighty year old mother prepares to wed for the first time. An actor becomes an undercover policeman so as to carry on his craft; his thespian wife endlessly attends auditions. Health problems lead both men to the same lady doctor; unfortunately she remembers one of them only too well. Meanwhile a young girl endlessly searches for the lad she met fleetingly in the corridor on a train.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}