简介：Max is a real jerk. A long time ago, the successful lawyer had turned over all the routine duties of family life to his wife Nathalie.His comfort and leisure time were a far greater priority. Sell the roadster and buy an efficient family car? No way!But then, Max’s fast-paced life suddenly screeches to a halt when Nathalie is hospitalized for several weeks with a complicated fracture.Alone with their two children and the dog he hates, Max quickly reaches the boiling point.As if having to play father was not bad enough, he is shocked to the core when he discovers passionate love letters written to his wife and signed “From G. in love”. Feeling that his life is slipping out of control, Max’s first impulse is to find out who his rival is. Then it dawns on him – could the way he has treated his wife be the reason why she has sought out another lover?Now Max attempts to see his situation from a different point of view. Last week he was ready to plan the yearly guys’ vacation he takes with his best buddy, but now things have changed.Max recognizes just how much he needs Nathalie’s humor, her organizing talent and her optimism, but also just how important to him she and his family really are. Max tries to discover the mysterious lover’s identity, but because of his new insight, he takes an additional step.Unfortunately, when he learns that the mystery man is Gregor, Max realizes that not only does the man have all those qualities - he is very attractive as well. His struggle to become a better husband and father suddenly becomes far more difficult.Hoping to knock Gregor out of the picture and get back in Nathalie’s good graces, Max makes an appointment with a successful life coach. But turning his life around is far more difficult than he had imagined.To make matters worse, Gregor turns out to be a loving, family-oriented man just what Nathalie needs. Max is desperate – he knows there is a real chance that he might lose Nathalie and the children.Willing to put everything on the line to keep his family intact, Max makes the biggest sacrifice of his life. Then something happens that is the very last thing he could have ever counted on…
简介：故事发生在一所大使馆中，在小男孩菲利普（Bobby Henrey 饰）的眼中，管家班尼思（拉尔夫·理查德森 Ralph Richardson 饰）是如假包换的英雄。这其中的原委要追溯到菲利普经常外出的父母身上，父母不在，照顾和看管菲利普的责任自然就落到了班尼思的身上，在菲利普这样一个敏感又单纯的年纪，一个替他打点一切事宜的人就等同于无所不能的英雄。可班尼思真的如同菲利普所认为的那样正直和勇敢吗？当然不是，他不过是一个再普通不过的成年人罢了。尽管已有家室，但班尼思还是和一个名叫朱莉（米歇尔·摩根 Michèle Morgan 饰）的年轻女子保持着暧昧关系，甚至趁菲利普的父母不在家时偷偷将朱莉带到大使馆幽会。没想到，一次意外夺走了朱莉的生命，而这一单纯的事故在菲利普看来，却是一场蓄意已久的谋杀。