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。

Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude...