UnfoIding over the course of a Iate summers day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, PortugaI, FRANKlE folIows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the famiIy matriarch, Frankie (lsabeIle Huppert). In this fairy taIe setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impuIses discover the cracks between them, as welI as unexpected depth of feeling. |