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Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

A whimsical, restless energy pulses through this portrait of domesticity as youthful romance meets the messy reality of adulthood. Antoine's frantic, boyish impulses collide with the quiet stability of marriage in a series of charmingly chaotic vignettes.

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