Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her
latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and
abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his
mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old
friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night
at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a
stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover
Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make
personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect.
