It is midnight in Tunis, the fragile fate of a couple falling apart. Malek, a poet without inspiration, meets up with his wife, a theater actress who acts out their life as on a stage. In Paris, Malek lives a relationship of love and admiration with Belgacem Artaud, a failed poet. Belgacem commits suicide before reaching this point, leaving his poems to Malek who takes them and returns to his homeland to find his wife before it is too late.