In pursuit of their latest target, young hitmen Karl and Roland leave Paris for the country, where Kate—a woman some years their senior—resides. Endearing themselves to her companion Michel, they move into her lakeside mansion, where Karl, in spite of himself, becomes infatuated with Kate.

Whistling birds, rippling breezes, and the ticking of bicycle wheels stir Guy Gilles’s summery film, which patches fragments of memory into the present. Flame-haired and honey-voiced, Delphine Seyrig’s sylphlike character plays God and Eve in her very own Eden—a perfectly melancholy paradise lost.