Guy Thomas

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)

Mother and Daughter are having a grand time living a ménage lifestyle with Stepfather. Everything seems to be going just fine. Until, that is, Father (Mother’s first husband) returns from Japan and decides Mother’s upbringing of his daughter has been an amoral influence, and decides to obtain legal custody of his daughter. Not having seen her father since a child, his daughter objects.