Plot summary

Technical college philosophy professor Brummies Nick 'celebrates' his mandatory retirement, spending most of their savings on the second honeymoon, back in Paris which his wife, teacher Meg Burrows, dreams of but meanly considers too little too ate to save their aiming marriage, endlessly blaming his short affair decades ago. She keeps spending more money they don't have while spoiling it at least for him. The they are invited to a party by his American academic Cambridge colleague Morgan to a wild, lavish party to celebrate his latest book and pregnant wife Eve. The arrival of Morgan's surprisingly philosophical teen son Michael has remarkable consequences.—KGF Vissers