The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
| Directing | Manoel de Oliveira | Director |
| Production | Paulo Branco | Producer |
| Art | Yves Fournier | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Isabel Branco | Costume Designer |
| Camera | Sabine Lancelin | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Valérie Loiseleux | Editor |
| Writing | Manoel de Oliveira | Screenplay |
| Sound | Jean-François Auger | Sound Mixer |
| Writing | Jacques Parsi | Writer |
| Sound | Henri Maïkoff | Sound Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Emmanuelle Fèvre | Key Makeup Artist |
| Sound | John Fewell | Sound Effects Editor |
| Writing | Eugène Ionesco | Theatre Play |
| Writing | William Shakespeare | Theatre Play |
| Writing | James Joyce | Novel |