Scripted and directed by Michel Blanc, SUMMER THINGS is the sparkling French adaptation of British writer Joseph Connolly's hilarious novel about a group of friends vacationing in the Normandy resort of Le Touquet.

Charlotte Rampling (Swimming Pool) plays Elizabeth, a bourgeois housewife, who plans a trip to the upmarket French seaside inviting her single friend Julie (Clotilde Courau) and baby to join her. When her two-timing husband Bertrand (Jacques Dutronc) remains in Paris pleading work commitments and her rebellious teenage daughter Emilie (Lou Doillon) parties in Chicago, Elizabeth finds herself in for a very different vacation.

Thus the mayhem begins as the ladies are joined by their hard-up neighbours Ver?(Karin Viard) and Jérôme (Denis Podalydès) and their gangly teenage son Loïc (Gaspard Ulliel). Too poor to stay in the same fancy hotel as Elizabeth, Jérôme has booked his family into a rundown caravan site, much to the horror of his status-conscious wife. Meanwhile amongst the fellow guests at Elizabeth's high quality hotel is possessive husband Jean-Pierre (played by Blanc himself), his exasperated wife Lulu (Carole Bouquet), and Maxime (Vincent Elbaz) - a serial womaniser understandably keen not to reveal his marital status!

As the various characters fall in and out of love the holiday-makers begin to learn more and more about themselves and each other! Loïc is eager to lose his virginity, Julie is desperately chasing a holiday romance and Elizabeth is wondering whether she's done the right thing to trust the adulterous Bertrand. On the other side of the Atlantic, Elizabeth's daughter Emilie is partying long into the night with Kevin (Matthieu Bouajila) in Chicago, little realising that he has embezzled money from her father's firm to pay for the trip?

As the holiday draws to a close can things go back to how they were before for the holidaymakers?