Directed by Danielle Arbid and adapted from the celebrated autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, this French-Belgian erotic drama tracks the psychological reality of consuming romantic obsession. The film follows Hélène (Laetitia Dosch), a brilliant university professor, academic researcher, and single mother living in Paris. Her orderly intellectual life completely unravels when she begins an intense, purely physical affair with Alexander (Sergei Polunin), a married Russian diplomat attached to the embassy. The narrative strictly follows Hélène’s internal state as she spends months in a hypnotic limbo, losing her focus on work and family, living entirely from one clandestine hotel encounter to the next.