Pierre, a young musician, briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he asks his friend and lover Aurélie to help him find her.

The late Michel Piccoli stars alongside Lea Massari in Michel Deville’s enigmatic, curious drama in which he plays a man who is suddenly taken by an obsession that leads him on a relentless quest. Under a simple premise lies a startling film that is formally playful yet existentially pessimistic.