Plot
On the eve of his wedding, whilst holidaying at Lake Annecy, Jerome, a career diplomat, accidentally meets up again with Aurora, an old, very close friend. Through her Jerome meets her landlady, Madame Walter, together with her youngest teenage daughter, Laura. Aurora tries to talk Jerome into a flirt with Laura, but he initially resists the tease. Jerome and Laura undertake a hike together in the mountains, and she develops a schoolgirl crush for Jerome which he finds increasingly difficult to resist.
A few days later, Laura's attractive elder half-sister arrives, and Jerome proceeds to fall -- not for Claire in her alluring bikini, but for Claire's knee, which he irresistibly longs to touch.
However, Jerome controls his temptation. Eventually an opportunity presents itself during a boat trip on the lake when Jerome and Claire have to seek shelter in a hut from an approaching storm. Jerome tells Claire that he saw her boyfriend, Gilles, together with another girl. When Claire starts to cry Jerome consoles her by placing his hand upon Claire's knee.
Read more about this topic: Claire's Knee
Famous quotes containing the word plot:
“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“James’s great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofness—that is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually “taken place”Mthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, “gone on.””
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)