A writer, suffering from depression and debt, comes to Paris after a friend invites him to spend Christmas holidays. He is struggling after several passes on his new manuscript for his novel after years since his last three works were published. He meets a Parisian girl, who he encounters on some occasions and admittedly got smitten by.
She is a dominatrix and a care giver for people with terminal diseases, dying people. She loves two things who don't lie to her; pain and death. He on the other hand turns to SNM to cope with his secret depression. These are the secrets that they keep as they develop and fall in love with each other.
There conversations and relationship is not the conventional one. It may turn to sadistic and even very vulgar confessions but never revealing there hidden dark secrets. Basically they fall into the entrapment of just finding the right person when you meet someone. But it fiction and they are bound to discover the secret and smashes this relationship into a hopeless tragedy.
The film leads us through a thought that this may be very fictional in sense and sake of a narrative. But the drives of attraction and trust evolves into this simple and meaningful relationship that one finds luckily but once in a life.
Truly an honest work from actor director Eric Schaeffer whose works I am not so familiar with but accustomed to his annoying very American accent. I will check out his other works the one familiar If Lucy Fell from the 90's and his recent somehow (I guess) related work Fall.
Somehow the films that I see are in timely fashion as to the current season. In this case Christmas. This film is not your conventional love affair.
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