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Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.

Alexandre drifts through a messy collision of jealousy and desire while trying to sustain two incompatible loves. This sprawling portrait of romantic instability captures the suffocating friction of a love triangle gone wrong.

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