Emmanuelle Wion

65 years old Agathe Ledu refuses to grow old alone. That's why she's visiting the graveyard on a daily basis, honouring her husband and son, Breton sailors lost in sea five years ago. She's talking to them, all the while knitting. But for whom is Agathe knitting ? (One of the two shorts that inspired "Amélie".)

Director Bruno Romy has put together a surreal, droll, and sometimes melancholy, sometimes risqué if not simply trashy series of seven vignettes on the love lives of several couples in a small village in Normandy in Northwest France. Romy has chosen former circus performers, mimes, and actors from street theater -- most of them in their first-time film roles -- to interpret these diverse and off-the-wall couples/couplings. One young mute woman finds her voice through a ventriloquist, another falls in love with a trapeze artist, and a village idiot finds a unique way to experience his first intimate sexual encounter.