Don't Worry holds surprises in store for us. Lili decides to move out of the house and Paul has new plans for himself and his wife.
The exotic and lovely Léa goes to Mozambique. As Lili grows closer to the sensitive and pained looking Thomas, she learns that he and she grew up nearby and have similar backgrounds. Paul (Kad Merad) is perhaps the most important character, a drab office worker, a shut-down dad, repressing his anger and self-pity, seemingly without emotion, but capable of more than it seemed. Isabelle Renauld as Isabelle, Lili's mother, is harried yet always appealing. She must achieve balance, suffering and fading yet still somehow appearing to remain alive also to a future as yet undetermined. Is he homeless and desperate or just finding himself? Is there some deeper cause for his absence than a fight over a messy room as one would think and as the psychiatrist said there must have been a deeper cause for Lili's depression than her brother's disappearance? Melanie Laurent has to be the film's center and its mirror.
Lili can't move forward with her life until she has learned more about Loïc and actually seen him. They give her a thread of hope but leave her in much doubt. Lili stays out of school and becomes a supermarket checkout person like fellow university student Léa (the radiant Aïssa Maïga of Bamako) who became a good pal in Barcelona, and socializes with her and Léa's meteorologist boyfriend Thomas (Julien Boisselier), who helped try to "spring" Lili during her psychiatric confinement. They show Loïc is drifting from town to town, surviving on odd jobs and playing his guitar for money. She gets better and is released and letters keep coming. Protesting this regime, Lili's father forces the doctor to let her see a letter that has come from Loïc. This she refuses to do and her condition steadily worsens. She collapses and is taken to a psychiatric hospital where she's put to bed and she and her parents are told she can't see anyone till she eats. Waiting in vain for a call back on her cell phone, Lili is so deeply troubled by the news of Loïc's disappearance that she eats nothing for the next eight or nine days. We don't know much about Loïc other than that he is a talented musician-songwriter and a rock climber who abhors his dad's drab conformist commuter-train life. When nineteen-year-old Lili Tellier (the sweet, pretty Mélanie Laurent) returns to her parents' cookie-cutter suburban house after a summer studying in Barcelona she's told that after a fight with their father Paul (Kad Merad) over his messy room her fraternal twin Loïc has run off without explanation.
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