Un joven de 20 años, Charles, aparece muerto en el cementerio parisino de Père-Lachaise. ¿Se trata de un suicidio o de un asesinato? Charles vive entre dos amores, Alberte y Edwige, deambulando entre conversaciones existenciales con su amigo Michel.

Laden with a cacophonous soundscape of mechanical noises, Robert Bresson’s shattering portrait of idealism lost seizes the disillusionment that permeates through 1970s France. Numbed by social upheavals, young people turn to external stimulants, only to be confronted with their own spiritual voids.