Bored bisexual millionaire Frédérique picks up a young street artist named Why, and whisks her away to her villa in St. Tropez for the winter season. They soon meet dashing architect Paul and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.

« Given a "spot of nature", a wood, undergrowth and what happens there : nothing, perhaps, but existence, but that is the whole point, and how to grasp it ? » (Jean-Christophe Bailly)

After an argument with her fiancé Maurizio, Manuela breaks off with him and decides to go to a Mediterranean island where her friend Eleonora now lives a solitary life. The friendship between the two girls gradually turns into sexual attraction and they become lovers. When Maurizio lands on the island with a view to reconquering Manuela, his fiancée long hesitates between Eleonora and him. When she eventually decides to follow Maurizio Eleonora reacts violently...