Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...

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Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet h...

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A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her th...

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the prop...

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostil...

The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Ja...

A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities eng...

Years after his teen romance with Milea, a now-adult Dilan tells his version of their love story whe...

The stories of three women who know each other, or get to know each other. They are brought together...

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Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...

The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual l...