This farce was supposedly conceived in response to a remark from Demy's wife, Agnès Varda: “If you men could get pregnant, you'd behave differently with women.” Driving instructor Marcello Mastroianni and his hairdresser wife Catherine Deneuve are faced with an unexpected pregnancy-his. “Things we find abnormal now may be normal in the future,” says Marcello's doctor; indeed, the film is both very much of its time (doctors smoking in the exam room, sets saturated in shades of orange) and, with its TV pundits debating socio-moral implications while marketers rejoice in pregnancy's commercial possibilities, quite at home in ours.