Still pining for his ex-boyfriend, Géraud has come to a French seaside town to present his new experimental film, but the only person keen on seeing it is the cinema's underage projectionist who becomes smitten with the handsome director.

After a life-altering night, a young poet believes he has committed murder. As he rewrites the events to make himself the hero, reality and delusion blur, pulling him into a spiral of obsession and loss of control.