由杜拉斯和影星热拉尔·德帕迪约扮演的两个角色坐在门窗紧闭的房间里，杜拉斯讲述着一部电影，电影里的女人搭上一辆卡车，与司机滔滔不绝地聊了一个小时二十分钟。谈话不时切换到卡车绕着巴黎行驶和停下来让女人搭顺风车的镜头。德帕迪约就是卡车司机，杜拉斯就是搭车的女人。对一部潜在电影的口头描述和电影可能形成的图像两者并置起来。

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That's all -- there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.

Une jeune femme ecrivain lit un scenario a son futur interprete. Un scenario en gestation, puisque petit a petit les images naissent, les personnages s'elaborent...