Helene, a distracted pill-popping anaesthesiologist, almost runs
down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb
from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a
visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs
away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and
limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and
gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed
with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving
bizarrely and pushing her away. How these conflicts play out
becomes the movie's story.
