On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien — but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?