A technician welcomes a couple in a Parisian artist's studio. After several technical preparations, they are taking place to physically reproduce Magritte's painting "The Lovers" in order to serve as models for a painter. The artist begins to paint, revealing a blank canvas. He ends up putting down his brush, leaning over a mirror on the floor, deeply disturbed by the absence of his reflection in it. In the room, time now seems to be suspended.

They lived intensely. They were beautiful. They were inseparable. They were five but now there's only four of them - A group of childhood friends drowned in the murky waters of grief, a brutal return to reality - Arthur refuses to grow up without his friend and tries to get away by pursuing a dream that was previously buried: writing a movie. But he can't prevent the demons of the past from re-emerging - Torn between love and friendship he gradually loses control, at the risk of dragging everyone into his downfall.