Roberto Plate

Tras la representación en formato teatro de apartamento de una de sus obras, el autor teatral Clément Roquemaure (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) propone a los actores, Charlotte (Géraldine Chaplin), Emily (Jane Birkin) y Silvano (Facundo Bo), participar en la representación de su siguiente obra. Para ello deberán trasladarse a la casa de Roquemaure, en las afueras y ensayar durante una semana la obra, de la que sólo conocerán el final en el momento de su representación. En la misma casa viven Paul (André Dussollier), mago de profesión, que mantiene con Roquemaure una relación entre la amistad y la rivalidad, y Virgil (Laszlo Szabo), el mayordomo. En el curso de la semana se suceden los ensayos, al tiempo que las actrices van descubriendo los secretos de una casa en la que se oyen extraños sonidos y en la que existe una habitación prohibida. El espectro de una mujer desaparecida, Béatrice (Isabelle Linnartz), flota tanto sobre la obra como en las relaciones de los personajes...

In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.

In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.

Olivier, un ladrón novato, entra a robar en un piso de París creyendo que está vacío. Sin embargo, es sorprendido por la propietaria, Ariane, que resulta ser una prostituta especializada en sadomasoquismo, una auténtica dominatrix. Inmediatamente surge una atracción entre ambos y comienzan una relación marcada por los celos de Olivier, que pretende que Ariane cambie de vida.

Una joven pareja deambula por la noche de la ciudad de Buenos Aires mostrando sus símbolos, sus personajes y secretos.