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A husband and wife who have been together for ten years. They used to make love every day, now they make love once a week but that doesn�t matter because there is also solidarity, mutual support, companionship. He feels sad when he has to have supper alone because she is working late. She hates it when he has to go away but accepts that it is part of his job. They feel that something is missing, but they are both grown-ups, they are both mature people and they know how important it is to keep their relationship stable, even if only for the children�s sake. They devote more and more time to work and to the children, they think less and less about their marriage. Everything appears to be going really well and there�s certainly no other man or woman in their lives. Yet they sense that something is wrong. They can�t quite put their finger on the problem. As time passes, they grow more and more dependent on each other; they are getting older; any opportunities to make a new life are vanishing fast. They try to keep themselves busy doing reading or embroidery, watching television, seeing friends but there is always the conversation over supper or after supper. He is easily irritated and she is more silent than usual. They can see that they are growing farther and farther apart, but can�t understand why? They reach the conclusion that this is what marriage is like, but won�t talk about it to their friends; they are the image of the happy couple who support each other and share the same interests. She takes a lover so does he, but it�s never anything serious of course. What is important, necessary, essential is to act as if nothing was happening, because now it�s too late to change.