After three months as a couple together, Paul no longer feels any physical desire for Marie, yet claims he loves her. But for Marie, sex is essential to her expression of love. She decides to look elsewhere for physical affection, and embarks on a series of increasingly extreme sexual encounters.

Catherine Breillat’s cinema has the vocation to embrace female sexuality and break the taboos that continue to stifle our puritan eyes. Provocatively titled, Romance X subverts the ideas of love and sex—and everything in between!—with abrasive explicitness and vivid echoes of Belle de jour.