Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) is a scientist who visits Paris, the city of love, together with his married wife June (Tricia Vessey) visits Paris, the city of love. She does not know that he is there in search of his missing colleague Léo (Alex Descas), who during experiments in Africa created creatures that kill their partners during "mating" kill and eat their partner. Also Léo's wife Coré (Béatrice Dalle) was a victim of these experiments. She is not in control of her libido and and goes out at night to satisfy her urges. Léo is then always on the lookout for her. He covers her tracks and lovingly brings her back home. Shane was also a subject of Léo's experiments; although he can control the consequences with the help of the consequences with the help of medication, but he is afraid that one day June will also be could become a victim of the experiments and he could become the murderer of his lover. "Denis films this gruesomely erotic dance of death in her unmistakably veiled and elliptical style. The deepest connections between the characters emerge from a silence that is antithetical to the dialogue - Shane peers hungrily into the neck of a hotel maid, Coré quietly lures a boy next door quietly into her boarded-up hideaway - while the numbing atmosphere atmosphere, indescribably created by the grainy images of Agnès Godard's and of Agnès Godard's camera and the hazy music of the Tindersticks, beguiles." - Time Out Magazine