After Sex

In Paris, the successful forty and something year old book editor Diane Clovier is married with the lawyer Philippe Clovier and they have teenage son and daughter. Diane meets the young engineer Emilio that is the roommate of the writer Francois Narou that is working with her, and they have an intense love affair. Meanwhile, Philippe is defending their neighbor that has killed her unfaithful husband sticking a fork in his neck and one day he overhears a phone conversation of Diane and her lover. When Emilio ends their affair, Diane gets deeply depressed missing her juvenile love, neglecting her husband and children that leave her. Meanwhile, the novel of Francois is published and he tries to help his self-indulgent editor to recover her emotional balance and self-esteem.