Loneliness is a painful emotion. Whether you’re surrounded by people or not, the feeling that you are truly alone can cause even the most rational people to do all kinds of things. We are, after all, all human and subject to the whims of our emotions.

Enter Juliette Binoche as Claire, a 50ish publisher and professor and divorcée who is making her way unhappily through life. After she is spurned by Ludo –the younger man she has been seeing– when she suggests they spend some real-time together, she decides she would like to enact some revenge upon him. To that end, she creates Clara, a gorgeous 24-year-old avatar to bait Ludo with. After several glasses of wine and friend requests, she receives a message, but it’s not Ludo she has hooked; it’s his roommate Alex.

This is where things start to go a little sideways, and also where I am going to do my best to stop speaking about the plot as this one has many twists and turns, and I don’t want to spoil any of them.

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