Build a movie plot around this: What does Madame Emery sell at her boutique? Umbrellas
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Cherbourg, 1963Madame Emery and her beautiful 17-year-old daughter Genevieve (Deneuve) sell umbrellas at their tiny (and financially struggling) boutique in the coastal town of Cherbourg in Normandy, France, in the late 1950s. Guy (Castelnuovo), is a handsome young auto mechanic who lives with, and cares for, his sickly aunt, godmother Elise. Guy and Genevieve are deeply in love; they want to get married, and they want to name their first child "Francoise". Madeleine (Ellen Farner) is the quiet, shy, dedicated young caregiver who looks after Guy's aunt; Madeleine also has feelings for Guy, but has not expressed this. Suddenly Guy is drafted and must leave to become a soldier in the Algerian War. The night before Guy leaves, he and Genevieve pledge their undying love. Then they make love (apparently for the first time) and the very next day, Guy leaves.After a couple of months it becomes clear that Genevieve is pregnant. She writes to Guy, but she feels abandoned when Guy writes back very infrequently; her mother tells her this is a sign that Guy has forgotten her, and she should give up on him. Genevieve has another suitor in Roland Cassard (Marc Michel), a quiet, kind, young Parisian jeweler, who is very wealthy, and who wants to marry her even after he finds out that she is carrying another man's child. Cassard had previously unsuccessfully wooed the title character in Lola; he relates a version of this story to Madame Emery, who repeatedly urges Genevieve to be sensible and embrace a secure future with Cassard. Genevieve finally decides she will accept Roland, and they are married in a great cathedral, but Genevieve does not seem happy with her choice.When Guy returns from the war with a slight limp from an injury, he learns that the umbrella store has been sold, and that Genevieve got married and left Cherbourg. As a returning serviceman, Guy has difficulties trying to continue with his previous life. He argues with his boss, quits his job, and goes to drink in a seedy port bar. He spends the...