The film centres on the relentless duel between two people: Clement, an old man caught up in an eccentric, hallucinatory world of make-belief, and Luc, a gregarious, open-minded young man who has just been told by his attractive girl friend that he is about to become a father. The old man fights to overcome his loneliness, the younger fights for his life. The better they come to understand each other, the better they know how to destroy each other. It’s not an everyday story, but one that could happen to all of us, any time …