An actress plays the role of an Arab terrorist who parachutists torture in a film that remains unfinished. In order to play her character better, she resorts to self-torture. Closely linked, fiction and reality make her life a nightmare: she is separated from her son, and her lover Hamdias, the director of the film; a humiliated producer, leftist intellectuals who mock her revoluntionary beliefs... Behind the camera, Hamdias assists in her suffering...