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Paris, La Chapelle neighborhood in the 18th arrondissement. Eleven-year-old Pablo coldly puts up with his mother’s messy life. Abandoned for the umpteenth time, he decides to set out to find his Spanish father. He hires Louis, a poker player who has met with hard times and to whom he has become mysteriously attached. But his father turns out to be just an illusion…
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
