La vida de Paul da un vuelco el día en que su mujer, Sarah, desaparece repentinamente. Después de todo un año de vanas pesquisas, Paul se derrumba, atenazado por la duda y la culpabilidad. Su última oportunidad de salir adelante sería quizás trasladarse con sus dos hijos a Saint-Malo, donde se crió.
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There they encounter Chris. All three will end the night together. It’s their last move in joy and perdition.
In Paris, Ella, a.k.a. Hell, is a promiscuous and reckless teenager with absent upper class parents that does not study or work and spends her time going to night-clubs, using cocaine and drinking booze with her idle high-society friends. She has recently made an abortion without knowing who the father could be. When she meets the playboy Andrea, they have a torrid and crazy love affair with a tragic ending.