It displays a level of class that is reminiscent of New Wave cinema — classically chic through and through but also thoroughly modern, with a markedly light-handed humanism at its core. We follow the three characters one at a time, over the course of a day, from the moment they wake up in the morning. Three slices of life, at once everyday and momentous, are served to us as they come, with dotted lines in the place of explanation, offering possible links which may or may not exist between these stories. They come to represent the very humanity of the film: its sensitivity, which is all the more overwhelming for its understated presence, and its brilliance, for providing us with three portraits which are as modern and accurate as they are unfinished and open-ended.