
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
Elsie Wellman

Joey Wellman

Lena Apthrop

Christian Gauthier

Terry Amstrong

Lionel Cohn-Martin

Roxy Darcel
Harry Dempsey

Dora Dempsey

Isabelle Gauthier

Le boucher

La femme chauffeur de taxi
Laureline
Tintin
Valentina
Bateman
L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier

Le Spectre

L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier

La jeune femme qui chante

La petite fille de la place du village

Spirit
La domestique du manoir
Elektra
La jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier

Catwoman

Corto Maltese
Le Concombre Masqué

Mme Roget

La boulangère

La jeune femme fatiguée

Le chauffeur de taxi

La secrétaire de Gauthier

Le garagiste

Le jeune homme dans l'avion
La cliente de la marchande de légumes
