Turning 50 in a few weeks' time, getting dumped by a husband who has found a 28-year-old Capucine, refusing the advances of a fellow lecturer in corduroy trousers again, signing up with a dating site, making love with total strangers, at last finding a man you like and who takes you to a swingers' club, fainting in the metro, forgetting the date of your own birthday, having a nightmare about diving into an empty pool, crying over François Truffaut's The Soft Skin, running out of tissues... Those are things that happen.