in a small town in france and nicole kunstler ( miou miou ) and her husband jean marie kunstler be a traditional french middle class couple and bore with their year of marriage and run a small business of cleaning and ironing clothes with some financial difficulty . when they meet the bisexual loic ( stanislas merhar ) work a drag in a night club with his sister marylin ( mathilde seigner ) and the sexually dissatisfied nicole feel a great sexual attraction for him . the couple bring the young man to live and work with them and in a weird relationship and and nicole have an affair with loic and become a happy person . this intriguing triangle of love have a tragic end . nettoyage à sec be almost an excellent romance . the screenplay begin very daring and but the solution for the love situation be very moralist and resolve in a tragic and but easy way . the cast have a great performance and the direction be very good and but the story deserve a good conclusion . my vote be seven . title ( brazil ) represent lavagem a seco ( dry cleaning ) .