 Christmas and New Year s Eve are approaching. Angèle, who s over 40, picks up men for anonymous sex; yet when Antoine, an unkempt younger man (who s overheard one of her sex partners rudely dismiss her) declares that he loves her and wants to be with her, she pushes him away. What s at the root of her mistrust of love? She works at the Vénus beauté salon, where the relationships and loves of her clients and of her boss and two co-workers contrast with her own. Out of loneliness, she occasionally contacts an old boyfriend, but their schedules never click. Antoine continues to hang about, even though he has a fiancée. Is there any route to happiness for Angèle?