Guiraudie’s latest film details several edenic summer days and evenings at a cruising ground on the shore of a lake in the French countryside. The film establishes, with scrupulously observed realism, the rituals of cruising and anonymous sex – presented copiously onscreen – among the men who come to the beach, including Franck who is particularly attracted to a handsome newcomer while also taking the time to befriend an older man who sits at a slight distance, out of the action. When this idyll is disturbed by a murder, the subsequent actions and reactions of the men at the lake reveal the mysteries of desire, which can be insatiable and even irrational.