A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

年届不惑的艺术史学者约翰•洛克（James Wilby 饰）只身前往非洲，潜心研究法国著名画家德拉克洛瓦的画作及其艺术之旅。他将一座废弃的宫殿改造成工作室，当地一名美丽而神秘的少女贝尔奇斯（Dany Verissimo 饰）服侍约翰的日常起居。 某日，约翰收到一个神秘包裹，里面是充满肉欲的速写幻灯片，而这些竟然是德拉克洛瓦的手迹。困惑不已的约翰开始寻找包裹的送出者——金发女子格拉迪瓦（Arielle Dombasle 饰），同时也展开了一段匪夷所思的奇异历程…… 法国“新小说派” 代表作家之一阿兰•罗布-格里耶遗作。

1971 film by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?

1974 film by Alain Robbe-Grillet

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

1963 film by Alain Robbe-Grillet

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He engages in a superfluous affair and witnesses the lesbian relationship between the man's sister and a female servant. When passions subside, the family has doubts about the reliability of the man's story.