Jean-Claude Delsart, a 55 years old bailiff, is yearning for happiness. "Emotionally disabled", he lives in a perpetual gloom, for he sees his life as a collection of emotional failures: his wedding ended in a divorce, his relationship with his only son remains aloof ans superficial, and he is convinced that his father, a sor old man, never loved him...Then someday Jean-Claude decides to join a tango school. There he meets FRancoise, a 36 years old woman. For them, the most natural and simple would be to miss each other...