Francis and Marie are close friends. One day, during a lunch, they meet Nicolas, a young man from the country newly arrived in town.
As one rendez-vous leads troublingly to another – whether real or imagined, the signs are all bad – each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around the same object of desire. And the deeper they slide, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block.