The story goes that Maria’s father is presumed dead and some four million dollars left in his care are unaccounted for. Maria’s elusive sister Liz (Danièle Gegauff, a producer on Out 1 and star of a single Chabrol film) summons Maria and Joe (Liz’s boyfriend) but fails to show up herself, so these two meet and go on an adventure together. Liz shows up briefly, along with a bunch more characters, each of whom want to help either Maria or her possibly-alive father, or more likely, want a share of the money. Most suspicious is Shirley (Sylvie Matton, whose husband directed her and Udo Kier in his adult horror Spermula), who is possibly either Liz’s best friend, the father’s ex-lover, Joe’s sister or none of the above. The movie seems to fits neatly in the Rivette filmography, with on-camera musicians like predecessor Duelle, and a couple of characters chasing around the country trying to solve a possibly imagined mystery a la follow-up Pont du Nord. But there are some wrinkles. The grasp on the mystery is soon lost and Joe and Maria ramble, their relationship growing increasingly unpleasant, then the plot returns with a puzzling vengeance in the last half hour. Plus there are unexplained fantasy scenes, with Joe and a suspiciously Maria-like girl (played by Hermine Karagheuz, Marie in Out 1) chasing each other through forests and deserts, with appearances by snakes, rifles and a mounted armored knight.
转晕了。
熙熙攘攘皆为利往，为情困
（目前最无感的一部里维特…
本片讲述了一个骗局，并在叙述的过程中引入了从怀疑到斗争到反客为主的潜意识变化，增添了阴谋的味道。里维特巧用背景音乐演奏分隔影片，管乐与弦乐的角色同时也在紧贴潜意识走向，非常独特。
类似《决斗》的情节，抛开玛利亚施耐德一副“这片什么时候杀青”的稀烂表演不谈，依旧是雅克里维特擅长的三重阴谋、基于拉康建立的人物心理状态命题、一些神秘学、超现实要素等标准。但是里维特影片序列中惯常的对于神秘元素捕捉是失去灵性的，呈现结果就是松散的诡异幻想画面的随机出没（可能是英语片水土不服？），同时伴随着人物漫无目的的晃荡最后又带着非常强目的、夹杂吊诡的幻想画面回归导致影片形散神也散，再用以音乐演奏...
