Lucjan is a theatre actor whose health is failing. He forgets his lines on stage and feels confused and out of place in his daily life. He decides to end his acting career and soon winds up in a nursing home. In this new place, the elderly man misses his late wife. He starts having nightmares that seem to become real. In one of them, he discovers a passage into a magical world deceptively similar to his theatre. Lucjan starts living in two parallel dimensions – real life and the fairy tale – that become increasingly dependent on each other and intertwined. His immersion in the imaginary world leads to an unexpected ending. A bittersweet treatise on passing. The fairy-tale world Lucjan creates is not so much a metaphor for death as a symbolic reconciliation to its coming.
水木夫妇婚姻生活幸福美满。然后不幸降临到两人身上。因为丈夫的失误,公司遭受巨大损失,丈夫最终被调到肤浅的部门,整天盯着办公桌。当她的丈夫从他不喜欢的同事那里听说这件事时,他得到了一笔交易……
玛丽(朱迪斯•戴维斯 Judith Davis 饰)从乡下来到法国里昂国家音乐学院进修钢琴演奏,借住在童年好友艾玛(伊希尔•勒•贝斯柯 Isild Le Besco 饰)的公寓里。儿时很害羞少语的艾玛长大后变得成熟自信,让玛丽深深着迷,产生了不一样的感情。玛丽所在的学院学期末考核要求学生必须弹奏舒曼的狂欢节外加两首自选歌曲,因为课程上高标准的要求,玛丽不得不牺牲很多娱乐时间来严格练习钢琴。因而她大部分时间都是在艾玛陪伴下度过,二人分享着彼此生活的快乐,感情日益深厚。一次舞会上玛丽受到陌生男子的骚扰无法脱身时,艾玛及时相救,并给与安慰,使玛丽倍感温暖,二人的爱欲一触即发。但艾玛对玛丽日益强烈的控制欲却让事情走向了不可控制的方向….
辻井在浅野的推荐下结束了打工,来到浅野家喝咖啡,由于浅野的记事能力,她感受到了丈夫感受不到的亲切。与此同时,明知她已婚却暗恋她的浅野却趁机向她表白,无奈之下,辻井爱上了以这种方式向她表达感情的浅野,最终在喝咖啡时与她发生了性关系,两人成为了一体。几天后,无法忘记那天关系的浅野这次来到了家里,而无法离开浅野的辻井最终又和他混在一起了