Marie is a sullen, unforthcoming creature who has left home because she cannot stand her father. She does her work, but comes alive only at night, though with little money to have much of a nightlife. She is house-sitting a nice, big apartment for a mother and daughter whom a car accident has left comatose in the hospital. She doesn’t know much about them, and doesn’t care to. But, grudgingly, she lets Isa share the apartment.
At first, the girls hit it off: Their very differences prove stimulating. They go pub-crawling and, penniless, decide to crash a disco. But the two bouncers, Frédo and Charly, won’t let them in. A jeering altercation arises. Later that night, at a café, the bouncers plant themselves in two empty chairs at the girls’ table, and a kind of friendship develops. Marie ends up lovelessly sleeping with Frédo, Isa remains platonic with Charly; both accept money from the
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