Following her husband’s suicide and the fall of their family business, Sandra calls her brother Marco and asks him to come back to Paris to exact revenge on the man responsible. Marco moves into the building where the man’s mistress lives with his son, but things don’t end up the way they should.

Claire Denis explores the dark side of erotics with a fascination and fearlessness that few other filmmakers possess. Bristling with passion and pain, Chiara Mastroianni and Vincent Lindon are accessories to a festering spiral of unthinkable transgression in this sinister but thrilling noir.