[1] Nina is a young headstrong woman who has traveled to Paris from her provincial home in Toulouse searching immediate success as an actress.

Tired of one-night stands and sharing quarters with others, she sets out to find her own apartment, stopping in to a realtor's office.

After the play, Nina takes Paulot for dinner with her current boyfriend Fred, but the couple has a major row, breaking off their relationship.

Full of self-doubt and fear, stimulated by the ghost-like appearances of the dead Quentin, Nina prepares for the role and copes with Paulot's advances.

Nina struggles to rehearse her role as Juliet in the forthcoming play but, after Paulot leaves her, realizes that he is the one she is really in love with.

The play is about to start... Rendez-vous is a dark yet powerful examination of love and sexual desire from the point of view of three emotionally scarred young people.

In 2023 Juliette Binoche said she was shocked during the scene where Nina is sleeping and Quentin and Paulot, played by Lambert Wilson and Wadeck Stanczak, put their hands between her legs.