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In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That's all -- there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.

Eva is a singer at Noah's Ark nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.

The life of Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of ambassador to India circa 1930.

A teenage girl tries to learn the secrets of a device invented by her late father, while avoiding greedy interests out to obtain it for their own purposes.

About the impermanence of love - a naked woman lies on a couch, while her double in a concert dress sits at the piano, playing and singing "Ariadne's Lament".

Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.

An ode to death and a warning about the futility of all things - a woman sits next to the bed of a dying man, and behind her stands a smiling Death.