Sarah Morton, the middle-aged British mystery writer (played by Rampling), is getting the writer's block that is stopping her from completing her next book. Her publisher offers his united states home inside France for some rest & relaxation. Sarah's routine in the home shows her constrained old maid-prefer life-style. Fallowing becoming comfortable by having a dog of the home, Sarah's relaxation is interrupted per publishers' girl, Julie (played by Sagnier), world health organization shows higher 1 nightwhale & says she populates good-time in the home. Julie occurs as person-girl whose sex-life includes of these-nighttime stands sustaining middle-aged men. a competition of personalities all over the different lifestyles prepare between them women. the competition becomes intimate after a local male waiter is exposed. An unexpected tragedy occurs when the nighttime of flirting between these trine.

A film's independent surprise is confusing a audience in how else else tremendously one cases actually occurred versus how lot is Sarah's imagination. These imaginations come a basis for her recently book that she writes in the period of her stay in the french home.