
January 1, 1978 · 48 years old

On Christmas Eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.

As Jean, a conservative, campaigns to be reelected mayor of a small town in northern France, Edith, his spouse of 40 years, tells him a secret he can no longer repress: in his heart, he is - and always has been - a man.