一次偶然中，保罗（Jérôme Robart 饰）结识了名叫弗雷德里克（路易斯·加瑞尔 Louis Garrel 饰）的画家，两人很快就成为了朋友。在弗雷德里克的家里，保罗遇见了女演员安格丽（莫妮卡·贝鲁奇 Monica Bellucci 饰），安格丽的美艳和奔放瞬间吸引了保罗的注意，保罗很快就坠入了爱河不能自拔。
为了追随安格丽，保罗跟随她来到了意大利，在这里，保罗成为了安格丽的同行，但是，初来乍到的他只能做群众演员。在工作中，保罗遇见了他的同行伊莉莎白（席琳·萨莱特 Céline Sallette 饰），两人一见如故。弗雷德里克邀请保罗到罗马游玩，保罗带上了伊莉莎白，一段复杂而换乱的感情关系就此展开。

A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child.

A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.

Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.

2017 French film directed by Philippe Garrel

1979 film by Philippe Garrel

2020 film by Philippe Garrel