Set between Paris and Rome’s Cinecitta’s Studios in the 1970s, a struggling writer seeks inspiration for his second novel, and falls in love with a famous movie star.
It’s Christmas! Small-town mayoress Carole helps the inhabitants of her municipality with the festivities while her devoted husband Alain organises the Christ- mas Eve celebrations at home. The kids arrive, and soon all hopes of a peaceful Christmas melt away as the family traditions are challenged. Wine is okay but only if it’s natural, Christmas decorations must remain unlit and no more foie gras for Alain... On earth as well as around the table, climate is warming up while everybody’s waiting for the big news that the eldest daughter is supposed to announce.
Aux Bords de Seine is a poetry, an enigma to be solved, a romance, a tragedy, a crossroads of several stories, a meeting and a crossroads of characters which is built little by little on the banks of the Seine, but also an idyll of a couple: Hillona Riménèse and Guillaume Rivière, which takes place most of the time outdoors hiding the evolution of each other, threatened by the fate of life, the day after deconfinement.