Shots of a sequence of a shooting: young girl who must shed tears.

An old man moves into a pension after leaving his house to his son. One day, his son picks him up and takes him to an old house, where he can enjoy the last good moments of life.

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.

A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.