Eustache experimented with delivery and believability, and tests the limits of both, in this two-part film, a dry, sly study of voyeurism proper (not propre). In the first film, a man (played by Michel Lonsdale) tells this strange tale: Hearing about a hole in the men's room of a cafe that allows one to see women on the toilet next door, he became a regular denizen, even though one had to lie on the floor in a ridiculous position to get a view. In the second film, this same story is told by the actual person who recounted it to Eustache, writer Jean-Noë;l Picq; four women friends respond to his story. Eustache approached this risible study in all-consuming passion in a typically distanced way: it was his theory that the actor's version, by definition fictionalized, and shot in 35mm, would be more convincing than the verité version shot in 16mm.