(French language film with English subtitles). A 30-year-old man lives with a woman in a small, furnished rental. He has a daughter by another woman
- a woman he abandoned. A theatre actor & very poor, he is madly in love with this other woman. She was once a rising star, but all offers of work have dried up. The man does everything he can to get her a role, but nothing works out. The woman cheats on him. & then she leaves him. The man tries to kill himself, but fails. His sister visits him in hospital. She's all he has left
- his sister & the theatre.