Éclats de famille (1994)

Marguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has come to her apartment looking for Mr. Alphonse Caron, the companion of Marguerite who died some years again.Marguerite has made up a lot of excuses.But Leon , the cabinetmaker of the neighborhood says Marguerite that she must find a fake husband.So Marguerite proposes Leon to be her fake husband.The real estate agent comes again and Leon transformed in Alphonse asks him to go away.In a park Marguerite and Leon meet a boy Sebastien ,who falls from a skate roller and his little sister Stéphanie.They go to the hospital with them.There Marguerite knows Véronique , the mother of the children.Later the real estate returns to the apartment and announces a great rent increase.Marguerite is desperate, she must find a job ; she meets again Sébastien and Stéphanie, the mother of children comes and is grateful with Marguerite because has taken care for them.The children say their mother that Marguerite can be their nanny. Véronique speaks with her husband Paul who wants to contract a couple (for the father figure) : so they explain Marguerite that they only contract a couple for taking care for the children.After some moments of doubt Leon accepts to be the partner of Marguerite.The first day Leon has some difficulties to understand Jérémie , the third adolescent child of the family.Marguerite is quite ready to give up, but the next day Leon is present at work.