The loves and songs of a mother and her daughter, from the 1960's to today. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni.

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Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier and later Catherine Deneuve), a free-wheeling woman in 60's Paris, steals a pair of pumps from the boutique where she works and ricochets into love with a young Czech doctor. The two marry and produce Véra (Chiara Mastroianni), but they don't last and the Prague Spring breaks them up completely. Back in Paris, Madeleine remarries, Véra grows up and her father reappears, having decided not to miss any more of their lives. Madeleine sees her former husband on the sly, Véra lets herself be strung along by the marriage plans of a man she met in London, while another man (Louis Garrel) waits in the wings, hoping she'll fall for him instead...

A musical comedy sung thinly, with asides in a heavy tone that often contrast with the genre and don't get any better when delivered by actors who can't really sing. Starting off with the candy pink ambiance of the pseudo sixties reminiscent of Jacques Demy, Christophe Honoré's movie moves on towards our times, passing by the AIDS crisis, suicide and 9/11 along the way.