A single mother meets a student, a young man meets the man of his dreams, a woman falls in a love triangle with a couple that she meets in French class. Seven young people and their three stories take part in the relationships—straight, gay, bisexual—that develop in Beijing.

Chinese director François Chang offers a virtuous film in Les Mauvais Romans. In a tribute to French culture the Alliance Française in Beijing, Rohmer's moral tales, , feelings are the driving force for these seven people, boosted by desire and excitement. The mix of cultures allows for an extravagant sensuality and a minimal romanticism, inks out of a print sprinkled with gentleness. An exercise of thoughtful cinema, unsettling, committed and bright.