影片通过一系列片断回忆一位老人所迷恋的一位极其高傲的女性。故事背景是幻想中的西班牙狂欢节。在咖啡馆中，老人把经历对游行中遇到的年轻朋友娓娓道来，这位年轻人同样是个伤心人。尽管他发誓不会重蹈老人的覆辙，但是却依然对傍晚与情人的约会期待万分。美艳绝伦的西班牙女郎，令男人神魂颠倒；位高权重的军卫被逗得心痒难耐，为她大洒金钱，只落得被玩弄摆布，与情敌决斗更差点赔上性命。 　　同一小说，在布纽尔手中成了超现实的《模糊的情欲对象》（1977）；史登堡亲自掌镜，双面娇娃的勾魂媚态，在如梦似幻光影下更教人欲拒还迎。是女人变幻无常，还是男人执迷自虐，才是情欲嘉年华的真实色相？大导与女神最后一次合作，虽面对外交风波与道德批判（十七分钟片段被剪），玛莲德烈治却自言是最心爱电影。

The story is carried by Mady, student by day, locksmith by night. But Claire, the enigmatic young woman she is helping out one night, isn’t what she seems to be. This door isn’t that of her apartment. And the bag she wants to recover at all costs isn’t hers, but Yannick’s, a man whose questions Mady will have to answer to. Caught in a hellish race, Mady only has one night to pr...

As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.

　　故事围绕卡米尔和丹尼尔展开，这对年轻夫妇在爱情和疾病的复杂关系中摸索前行。当丹尼尔面临危及生命的健康危机时，他们的关系被推向了极限，暴露了他们最深的恐惧和脆弱，同时也凸显了他们之间牢不可破的联系。—机智的杰克

Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet, through the confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art, finally reckons with their own emotional baggage (or, 'boulder'). The film oscillates between 16mm narrative compositions of everyday life and Super 8 montages which imagine the world of their poetry.