During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can't find a way to leave their personal problems at ...
A squatters family live on an island on the Seine river. Despite police intervention, they refuse to leave. The young woman and a cop are killed. The father escapes with his daughter. They arrive in Honfleur and manage to get on a ship.
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.