Juliette Binoche teams with Lambert Wilson in this erotic drama. Binoche plays the young lady friend of timid Wadek Stanszak. Though she intends to be true to Stanszak, Binoche falls hard for his roommate Wilson, a thoroughly self-centered actor who performs in live sex shows. After a torrid affair with Binoche, Wilson dies under questionable circumstances. Binoche's search for answers to Wilson's sudden death leads her to Jean-Louis Trintignant, the theatre director who'd once cast Wilson in Romeo and Juliet. Trintignant has likewise suffered a terrible loss in his life: his Juliet was also his wife, who also died unexpectedly. Apparently, it was the wife's death that led to Wilson's demise. On impulse, Trintignant casts the inexperienced Binoche as Juliet-and before long, both unhappy souls find a common emotional ground.