和丈夫离婚后,朱丽叶(希拉里·斯万克 Hilary Swank 饰)的生活走入了低谷,为了重振士气,她决定搬家。新的环境,新的邻居,友好又善良的房东麦克斯(杰弗里·迪恩·摩根 Jeffrey Dean Morgan 饰),这一切让朱丽叶总算是解开了心中长久以来的郁结。
随着时间的推移,一些奇怪的事情开始在朱丽叶的周围发生,预感告诉朱丽叶,有一个充满了邪恶气息的陌生人如影随形般地监视着自己的一举一动。为了找到幕后黑手,朱丽叶在房间里设置了录影机,真相让朱丽叶汗毛倒竖,原来,那个神出鬼没的不速之客竟然正是房东麦克斯。更糟糕的是,当朱丽叶拼尽全力企图接近真相之时,她也正在一步一步的走入麦克斯为她设下的圈套之中。
故事分成三個章節:主要的章節由高達親自飾演導演,正要趕乘飛機,在24小時內把一部電影的菲林交給監製;同時一隊二人流行電子音樂組合,不斷排練歌曲,最後在路上表演;另一邊廂,愚笨的大肥佬捲入一宗事件,被神秘女人密切監視,最後更被拘捕。三段故事看似毫無關連,實際是高達以電影來討論電影製作和藝術創作的重要。片名看似帶有弦外之音,就像高達暗示,假如監製或其他人要干擾導演的藝術創作,就索性我行我素,忠於自己的道路好了。這大概亦示範了高達如何純熟地運用電影媒體來做評論。
A film in three chapters: Godard plays the director in the main chapter, rushing to catch a plane to pass the negatives to his producer within 24 hours; an electronic duo keeps rehearsing for their roadshow; a clumsy fat man gets involved in an incident, and is arrested after being watched by a mysterious woman. Seemingly unrelated events, Godard is discussing the importance of film producer and artistic creativity. Godard is making the statement that if a producer or anyone interferes with creativity, it is better for the artist to go one's own way. A showpiece of how Godard uses the film media as his critical essay.