Uncle Charles

New Zealand:wealthy French businessman Charles Doumeng sees his world fall apart when he finds out he has an incurable disease. In his sixties, with no family and only a few weeks to live, he’s hit by a sudden resurgence of affection and decides to track down his sister in France whom he hasn’t seen for 50 years. In Mauprivez, a little village, 35-year-old Corinne, a solicitor’s clerk with money problems, stumbles on the ad Charles has placed to find his sister with the promise of a vast reward. She sets out to seek the missing woman, but when her efforts are unsuccessful, she decides to create a bogus family with the help of those around her.