A social drama about two brothers, Jean-Phi and Xav, that will help each other to face adversity. Jean-Phi deals with a weird condition that causes him to sleep all the time, while Xav has trouble dating, as he is still in love with his ex-girlfriend: the beautiful Stacy.

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.