A dinner party is the dictatorship of appearances: you dress up, laugh, tell stories, pose, share memories and plans. Anxiety is concealed behind humor and pain stifled by bursts of laughter. And for a few hours, you're taken in! That's all that counts. If you have the right codes, respect the other guests, cordiality hypocrist and high spirits, there's a chance it'll be a good evening... But the masks slip on the way home.