Set in the luxurious demi-world of pre-First World War Paris, Chéri is the story of the love affair between the beautiful retired courtesan Léa (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Chéri (Rupert Friend), the son of her old colleague and rival, Mme Poloux (Kathy Bates). Léa has educated the spoilt and callow boy in the ways of love, but after six years Mme Pouloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmée (Felicity Jones), daughter of another rich courtesan, Marie Laure (Iben Hjejle.) As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Léa and Chéri try to come to terms with their inevitable separation, but the roots of their life of ease and pleasure reach deeper than even they imagine and they begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
