 Juliette Binoche plays the young lady friend of timid Wadek Stanszak. Though she intends to be true to Stanszak, she falls in love with his roommate Wilson, a thoroughly self-centered actor who performs in live sex shows. After a torrid affair with Binoche, Wilson dies under questionable circumstances. Binoche s search for answers to Wilson s sudden death leads her to Scrutzler (Jean-Louis Trintignan)t, the theatre director who d once cast Wilson in Romeo and Juliet. Trintignant has likewise suffered a terrible loss in his life: his Juliet was also his daughter, who also died unexpectedly. Apparently, it was the daughter s death that led to Wilson s demise. On impulse, Trintignant casts the inexperienced Binoche as Juliet-and before long, both unhappy souls find a common emotional ground.