Abécédaire Gilles Deleuze

François travaille dans une banque au milieu d’une agitation permanente qui lui paraît stérile. Il a vingt-deux ans et rien ne semble l’intéresser en ce monde. Il a décidé de vivre sa vie "comme un poème" mais déçu par tout ce qui l’entoure, il demande fréquemment à la drogue de le faire pénétrer dans une autre réalité, celles des « Paradis artificiels ». Renvoyé par le directeur, il entre dans un processus irréversible. Drogué, il s'isole dans l'univers clos de sa chambre, dans une quasi solitude interrompue seulement par les visites de ses amis, sa femme et sa mère qui finiront par se lasser. Une fois, il tente un retour à la vie.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.

A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings

Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away. How these conflicts play out becomes the movie's story.