“Life’s a dream, isn’t it? Yes. A dream within a dream.” An older couple drink a toast to each other on the terrace of their flat. They would appear to be happy and healthy. But their quiet autumn years are slowly torn apart by an insiduous illness that causes Françoise to first get lost on the streets of Paris and soon in her own mind as well. Her husband, a former film critic, would like to look after her, but his energy is not what it once was… The picture is split in two, and so the viewer never misses out on even a second of cinematic time as the two characters – master of horror Dario Argento and French star Françoise Lebrun – seek to survive old age. Gaspar Noé presents a movie dedicated “to all those whose brains will decompose before their hearts.”