VENUS BEAUTY (SALOON)

Venus is a neighborhood beauty parlor. It is a place where treatments and advice are given, where its women customers know that their stories of deep-seated or passing pain will be heard. Occasionally, its custumers are men. Venus sells creams, cosmetics and elixirs to relax or get a tan, and whatever our reasons for going there, we find a little hope, and faith in eternal beauty. Nadine, the owner, manages her parlor and employs three young women, three beauticians: Samantha, Marie and Angèle.Angèle has been there for a long time. She has completely blended into this pink world where all is calm and attentive, beyound time, beyond the hustle and bustle of the everyday. When she finishes work, Angèle goes out. She flirts with men and tries to establish minimal relations based on sex and comradeship. She fails most of the time. Angèle doesn’t believe in love and she has her reasons…