As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva a taxi-driver hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure slipping away from the scene. So begins a series of strange incidents.

1974 film by Michel Soutter

Interspersed with jokes, visual puns, and philosophical discussions, the story follows the attempts of a girl who has spent the last year living outside her native Switzerland to rekindle a former love affair. When her immature young friend fails to demonstrate the requisite interest, she takes up with someone the boy disapproves of. When the boy kicks the man, the man leaves both the boy and his erstwhile ex-girlfriend to their own devices.

A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.

In the story of Reperages, Victor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a film director who has arranged to shoot a version of Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters. Casting her in the lead will enable his troubled wife, who has separated from him, to earn some money and receive some much-needed emotional support. Julie (Delphine Seyrig), his wife, has a drug problem, but Cecilia (Lea Massari), her co-star, happily approaches her with just the right kind of off-camera friendship to keep her going...

1968 film directed by Michel Soutter