After Fragments d’un discours amoureux (A lovers’ discourse) and Masculin/Féminin (Male/Female), Julie Duclos has chosen to pursue her exploration of desire, with humor and seriousness in equal parts. This time, the starting point is a cult film from the 1970s: Jean Eustache's La Maman et la Putain (The mother and the whore). Forty years later, the aim is to re-examine private utopias, exploring risky, confusing, dangerous models of love. Be realistic, demand the impossible! people used to say back then.

Issue of the past ? Of the present ? Of all times ? It is through dialogue with the previous generation that Julie Duclos and her actors pose these questions, using improvisation, editing, and collages. Godard is never far away, nor is Philippe Garrel and his relationship with the actor: "When the camera is rolling, you have to let the documentary about yourself happen."

The invention of acting dialogues with the writing of screenwriter Guy-Patrick Sainderichin, in a reciprocal inspiration. Theatre as a tool for probing hearts, bodies, souls? Yes, but also for taking the pulse of our present—and of what we can – or cannot – promise ourselves.