朋友们来到大使拉法尔（费尔南多·雷依 Fernando Rey 饰）家中做客，但是他们记错了晚餐的时间。毫无准备的拉法尔夫人（德菲因·塞里格 Delphine Seyrig 饰）对此深表遗憾，但是大家谈兴正浓，于是在外面聚餐。然而在酒店里，大家却见证了店员为店主守灵的一幕，遂悻悻离去。他们走在乡间的小径上，阴云密布的天空中，阵风吹起了麦浪，他们也开始分享失约的奇遇……塞内夏尔（让-皮埃尔·卡塞尔 Jean-Pierre Cassel 饰）去大使馆拜访拉法尔，但是却目睹了他用射击的方式驱赶女恐怖分子的一幕；拉法尔在家中又遇到了这个意欲行刺的女人，还好他巧妙地化解了危情；其他人到弗洛伦斯（布鲁·欧吉尔 Bulle Ogier 饰）家做客，但是男女主人却躲在后花园偷情。只剩下女仆伊勒斯招待各位宾朋，众人觉得无聊作鸟兽散；女眷们在酒吧里谈天说地，但是突然闯来一个名叫哈伯特的装甲部队上尉，对她们讲述悲惨的童年回忆……

After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem.

As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.

When a girl takes up acting classes to find a semblance of self, she soon finds out that she has more within her than previously thought.