Jolie, playing depressive and bored housewife Vanessa, casts her real-life husband Brad Pitt as her on-screen husband Roland, a struggling novelist. The American couple have been unhappy for some time, so they make their escape to a secluded French seaside hotel (filmed in Malta). While Vanessa takes to mostly lying around the hotel room reading, smoking and pill popping her day away, Roland seeks comfort in hard drinking at a local tavern. The marriage is completely stagnant, but soon sparks to life when they encounter a couple of newlyweds in the hotel room next door, Francois and Lea, with whom they both find a sort of physical attraction, and perhaps envy for being happy in this early state of their marriage. Vanessa discovers a peephole in the wall from which she can observe this passionate pair frolicking in their physical enjoyment of each other, while also planting suggestions in Roland of him wanting to have an affair with Lea, while she desires Francois for a rendezvous.
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