André, in his fifties, a former Parisian jockey, lives on little tricks. Guy, a colossus in his thirties, has just arrived from the North where his mother runs an inn by a pond. Isabelle, a painter of nearly eighty years, with a very aristocratic appearance, lives as a recluse in her studio. Nothing could have predicted that such dissimilar characters would one day meet. And yet. - they will spend three days together during which, trained by André, Claude and Isabelle will live more intensely than they had ever done.