Anxiety, as we visit two addresses in the 14th arrondissement and north‑west Paris. Monica has two lovers, and she has sent a letter to each of them. She thinks she swapped their letters, so she tries to outpace time by visiting both.
One of the New Wave pioneers, Swiss French Godard has adapted a short story by Jean Giraud, with American documentary‑film legend Albert Maysles behind the camera. Godard later reused this same love trouble anecdote in the feature A Woman Is a Woman (1961), in which Jean‑Paul Belmondo had to retell it. It is said Godard made this short after his breakup with actress Anna Karina.