In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland who has been letting life pass him by has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens. Lola, now a cabaret dancer, is also the devoted single mother of a young son, and she harbors hope that his father, who deserted her during pregnancy, will return. Roland falls in love with Lola, giving sudden purpose to his life, but she ultimately departs with her lover. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard’s graceful camerawork lends an almost balletic air to this precisely constructed, lighthearted work, whose main character reappears in Demy’s later The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.