A lonely single woman (Nathalie Baye, who turns in an exceptional, nuanced performance) places an ad in an adult magazine, seeking applicants who are willing to help her fulfill a certain sexual fantasy she has always had. (We never find out what this fantasy is; by leaving it to our imagination, director Fonteyne knows we’ll come up with something endlessly more salacious than anything he might have been able to think up.) What the act itself is doesn’t matter; what does matter is that the man she chooses (played by Sergi Lopez, who is also excellent) and she begin to have conversations before and after the act. Then, in their boldest act yet, they decide to become conventional lovers, and not just sexual partners. In a prolonged scene of excruciating awkwardness and emotional vulnerability, the two make love in the same hotel bed in which they have up to this point had only kinky sex. It is a great scene, because it shows the fear and passion and intimacy of two early-middle-aged adults who need more from each other than they have been, up to this point, willing to admit.