The Friends

Philippe is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed They have no children As he is preparing to go on a vacation to the seaside he strikes up an acquaintance with Paul a young workingclass boy and decides to bring him along This is Pauls first glimpse of how the other half lives with their firstclass hotels and so on When he meets some aristocratic young people at the resort he tries to put over the fiction that he is of their class with poor success