影片讲述了女主人公娜娜（安娜·卡里娜 Anna Karina饰）如何从一名普通售货员走上卖淫道路的悲情一生。娜娜厌倦了售货员的生活，想要成为一名演员，可命运却让她陷入了出卖肉体的色情深渊。她越是深入生命的深刻意义，越是怀疑生活的本来面目。命运辗转，就在她终于遇见她的爱人 时，命运又再一次跟她开了场玩笑，死在了皮条客的枪下。看似凌乱毫无关联的章节，充满哲理如呓语般的台词，为了“拯救灵魂而出卖肉体”么？影片抛掷给我们的又岂止是这一个问题。
After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take her place.
Filled with expectations, Etienne moves to Paris from Lyon to study film directing at the Sorbonne. He leaves behind his girlfriend Lucie, promising to call her regularly via Skype. On his course he meets Jean-Noël and Mathias, they too have come to the metropolis from smaller cities and share his passion for cinema. Together they discuss the cinematic canon, read texts by Flaubert and Pasolini, and listen to Bach and Mahler. Jean-Noël proves to be an agreeable friend who tries to strengthen Etienne’s fragile self-confidence; Mathias, on the other hand, often comes across as stern, aloof and mysterious. Fond of arguing, he has a habit of disappearing for weeks on end without the others knowing where he is. Nobody gets to see his student film, either. Etienne is particularly crestfallen when he discovers by chance that Mathias shares a secret with Annabelle, an idealistic young woman who lives in Etienne’s shared flat and with whom he is secretly in love. Jean Paul Civeyrac’s tenderly melancholic black-and-white study of these young people’s encounter with art and life is at the same time a declaration of love for classic cinema and the city of Paris.
