A Story of Water

As the spring melt floods the streets of a town outside Paris, a student (Caroline Dim) faces one obstacle after another while trying to get to the Sorbonne. After meeting up with a dashing young driver (Jean-Claude Brialy), the two set out on an irreverent journey propelled by stream-of-consciousness narration—brimming with clever wordplay and digressions from Baudelaire to the playfulness of art—as she and her newfound beau navigate flooded streets and fields.