In the sweltering summer heat, Marie is preparing for her bar exam. When the neighbor's cat falls to his death from his window, the young woman, in the midst of a paranoid crisis, tries to escape the potential witnesses to the tragedy...
Berlioz is a young, overqualified man who can't find a job. In order to avoid being struck off the unemployment register, he accepts an offer of a highly responsible job removing all the push pins from the wall of an empty building.