Your mom's dating again. Her boyfriend's a fraud. Her son's sabotaging everything. Chaos ensues.
The attractive Léa is around 40 and has a 20-year-old son, the result of a fleeting relationship. She lives with him in a posh studio apartment. Now Léa falls in love with David, who is supposedly an architect with a full order book and promises her marriage. In reality, however, he is a small-time employee. So that son Mathieu, who doesn't want to leave his mother alone, moves out of the apartment and goes to Canada with his girlfriend, a comedy is played for him...
Acting
Anaid Iplicjian carries the whole delusional romance.
Production
That posh studio is practically its own character.
Director
Wolfgang Spier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
West German TV movies of this era often imported French settings and themes to explore bourgeois anxiety—Léa embodies the glossy surface hiding economic precarity.
Wolfgang Spier directed over 40 TV films; this one barely exists in archives, making that single TMDB vote practically its entire critical legacy.
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