A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.

在一座海滨别墅里，一群孩子在保姆的照顾下，大部分时间都在看暴力电视节目。

An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.

亚历山大是一个年轻而诚实的农民，他受到专制妻子的压迫，妻子让他像狗一样工作。妻子因车祸去世后，他决定躺在床上，完全自由自在，无所事事。只有一条狗负责为他运送食物和报纸。
当他的妻子去世后，亚历山大决定将自己的全部精力投入到他的伟大爱好中：养狗。他睡了几个半月。他的儿子对美丽的阿加特说了些什么，阿加特最后说："我想你会喜欢我的。然而，就在他向她求婚的那一刻，他却遭到了背叛，他的自由和他的爱情都受到了威胁。

在具有异国情调的伊斯坦布尔，一位法国教授在寻觅一个神秘的女人，但从各个方面得到的都是否定和不确切的答复。同时，就像这个女人的存在一样，伊斯坦布尔也充满了各种假的事物，从清真寺到旅游纪念品，所有的东西都是虚假的，而且，演员的表演也被指责为“不自然”。罗伯-格里耶正是通过这种虚假对现实进行反思。