France in the early seventies. The beautiful siblings from Sweden have never worked. And nothing is supposed to change, even though they are no longer young and it is gradually becoming a bit challenging to find generous benefactors. Alternately and quite willingly, they indulge themselves for food and lodging, and if necessary, they will part with their last earrings for a luxurious dinner. However, they are somewhat tired of their aimless existence, which gives the author the opportunity to weave her own small insights about politics and eroticism, freedom, boredom, and loneliness into the narrative. Like puppets, she places her characters in the glamorous Parisian setting, with the strings they hang from always visible. This modernistically playful novel by Françoise Sagan reflects itself in an intelligent and entertaining manner.