Plot

The story takes place in a Belgium seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and illness. The six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive. Catherine is a lively, sexually liberated woman willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men. Leonie is reserved, formal, and conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, He was wounded and carries psychological scars of war. The other men play practical jokes on Leon, some of them cruel. As Leon courts Leonie, his mother brings him emotional distress as do his memories of war. The unlikely pair struggle to get past these obstacles.

Cast

• Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...
  
  – Leon
• Barbara – Leonie
• Danièle Evenou – Catherine
• Fernand Fabre – Antoine
• Louis Navarre – Armond
• Ceel – Pascal
• Serge Sauvion – Serge
• François Cadet – Jules
• Luc Poret – Henri
• Jacques Provins – Grosjean
• Catherine Bady – Madame Grosjean