Claudia Cattelan, an Italian video-artist, is preparing a film for the cinema, a rather unusual project that blends real life and fiction. She then travels to Rotterdam, where her film is set, to suss out the locations. Here she meets a French actor and offers him the lead role. Although he is not very famous, Serge Coran is a serious professional who after years of playing the houses still hasn't had the opportunity to star in a lead cinema role. He has travelled all the way to Rotterdam precisely for this reason, but finds the meeting place and the audition he is given rather unusual. Something disturbs him deep down, but he is not sure what it is. Serge takes some time to think it over and informs his agent of the offer. The same day, Serge and Claudia spend the evening together and end up in each other's arms - an unexpected night of love, two lonely hearts that meet, or possibly just a fated encounter.