The prologue introduces Paul Godard, a filmmaker, and his estranged girlfriend, Denise, in which a stressed Paul leaves the deluxe hotel to which he has moved and rebuffs the sexual advances of a male hotel attendant.
The first section follows Denise as she takes her first steps to an independent life without Paul. She lands a manual job on a local paper run by an old friend, perhaps an old lover, in a country town and gets a room on a farm in return for helping with the cattle. She is also writing up some new project, which may become a novel. Realising she is late to collect the author and filmmaker Marguerite Duras for an interview, she telephones Paul to ask if he can do it for her. Despite being in no mood to agree with her, he accepts.
The second section focuses on Paul. He is afraid of life without Denise, perhaps of life itself. Paul fulfills his favor to Denise by collecting Marguerite Duras from a local college. That evening, as it is Cécile’s birthday, he takes her and her mother to a restaurant but all his scornful ex-wife wants is money and all the girl wants is presents. Leaving in fury, after again expressing his alienation with inappropriate sexual innuendo, he meets Denise in a bar, where the two quarrel and part.
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In the third section, Isabelle devotes herself to increasing her earnings to achieve independence. After a night with Paul, she is waylaid by a pimp who reminds her that there is no independence in a commercial world. Isabelle forms a bond with Denise and they support each other.
In the coda, Isabelle prospers in her new apartment and Denise moves on in life. Paul has a tragic accident, bringing unexpected consequences to the people around him.
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