Arquivo

An engineer obsessed by technology and control, Alain Getty (Laurent Lucas) is married to mild Benedicte (Charlotte Gainsbourg). The couple?s peaceful routine is shaken when Alain invites his boss, Pollock (André Dussolier) and his wife, Alice (Charlotte Rampling) home, to dinner. The dishes are to be made ready when an incident complicates things: the drain on the kitchen sink is blocked by an invisible obstacle. Worse is yet to come. The guests arrive ever so late and trigger a small-scale scandal. Alice is rude to her husband and tosses a glass of wine in his face, and the night out comes to an end midst considerable embarrassment. As from then, a strange bond is to link the couples. Suicide, treachery, with the removal of the obstacle that was blocking the sink - a lemming, a rare rodent from Scandinavia (No one can possibly imagine how it got there) - all of which generate a diabolical atmosphere where anything might just happen.