Back home, Axelle, a young flight attendant, listens to the telephone messages recorded on her answering machine. She notes that of Phil, a successful novelist, invites her to join him in the West Indies. Barely arrived in the tropics, she succumbs to the charm of her host, before meeting his mistress, Elvira. The next day, at a reception, he "offers" Axelle the young and disturbing Coralie, then loses in poker his second night of love with his guest, whom he must then give to a heroin trafficker .