Would-be writer and revolutionary Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) romances breezy pop singer Madeleine (Chantal Goya), but the pair's fundamental differences breed confusion. Can their stormy relationship survive in a world that blends bourgeois sensibility and radical social concern? French new wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard forays into the vibrant world of 1960s counterculture in this fresh take on the age-old battle of the sexes.