1941年上海，中国抗日战争已经历时四年，随着太平洋战争的爆发，英美加入战局，上海外租界的西方人的生活也经历了巨大的动荡，11岁的Jamie就是其中之一。 　　在逃难的途中，Jamie和父母走失，他遇到美国人贝希和弗兰克，差点被他们卖掉，三人辗转到了闸北集中营。在集中营，J amie明白了战争的残酷，学会了“为了吃饭什么事都能干”的生存哲学，还认识了和他一样喜欢飞机的日本小孩。但是，在他内心深处，一直渴望着和父母团聚的一天。

The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her. 　　Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris. 　　Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002 　　Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec 　　Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...