This is the story of a father, Jan, a cultural host in a hostile environment, and his daughter Marie, an occasional stripper, who are on the edge of a precipice. She wants to jump and he tries to hold her back. How? By telling him stories, as in the tales of "Arabian nights". As long as he holds her attention, she will not jump.

在一个比利时海岸营地，市民都希望完全自由地生活，忘记生活的义务。他们远道而来，一部分人甚至想有一些性冒险或触及爱的事情。他们大都喜欢看足球、拳击或选美比赛，而对著名作家皮埃尔·梅尔坦的采访不感兴趣......

简布库艾是比利时有名的艺术家和电影导演，他在1994年执导的《比利时人的性生活》一片曾饱受国内争议，反对者称其颠覆了比利时传统的性禁忌，他甚至收到过激进分子的死亡威胁。不过，布库艾也因此名声大噪，成为比利时艺术界另类的代表。
A writer, Jan Bucquoy, narrates his sex life from his first sexual experience (with a teenage boy a few years older than him) to age 28, where he is living alone having split up with his wife, after having had an affair with a Karma Sutra obsessed model.