Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich English lord, André Costais, an intractable industrialist, is struggling to impose his authority on his family.

• Francos Films
• Dany Saval
• Françoise Dorléac
• Maurice Sarfati
• Michael Lonsdale
• Jacqueline Maillan
• Catherine Deneuve
• Hélène Dieudonné
• Noël Roquevert