When an aspiring writer with writer's block witnesses the murder of famous singer Madeline X, he attends her memorial and encounters a woman connected to her. He follows her home and discovers her nightly visits to a secret room.

When Camille meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Camille pursues this sensual, dream-like woman, throwing her whole conservative life, not to mention her engagement, into disarray.

An aspiring writer, while struggling to compose a eulogy after the sudden death of her mother, comes to discover that her own rebelliousness is as much a response to the male gaze as her mother's conformity.

Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.