Teenager Pierre spends all his time with his aunt Nadia, a flamboyant mathematician. The anarchy that reigns in Nadia’s life fascinates Pierre, who is coming to terms with his sexuality. But Nadia is a wounded soul, dependent on alcohol—and little by little, she slips away…

Like a lonely black cat in the night, a philosophical Béatrice Dalle stalks the streets and the dance clubs of Bordeaux in Patric Chiha’s volatile debut. Swinging between euphoria and total self-destruction, this portrait of a woman on a downward spiral grapples with the paradoxes of addiction.