In a prologue, Godard can be seen from the rear in silhouette standing at a window looking out over Central Park in New York City, while on the sound track a Gershwin tune previously used by Allen in Manhattan can be heard.
Godard then asks Allen about the influence of television on his work, saying that Allen's shots of New York City buildings in Hannah and Her Sisters seem to owe something to the way television portrays things.
Finding the question obtuse, Allen instead rhapsodizes on his youthful experience of the cinema.
In an epilogue, Godard is seen rifling through ephemera and a stack of books on a table.
Suddenly, declaring that "the meeting is finished," he slams the stack of books down on the table, slowing down the gesture in post production, so that the slam of the books hitting the table has a low, ominous tone.