Posted on February 25, Strange things happen. Middle-aged expatriate American hotel owner Paul Marlon Brando is mourning the suicide of his wife Rosa. He meets a young, engaged woman named Jeanne Maria Schneider at an unfurnished apartment in Passy that they are both interested in renting. Paul takes the apartment after they begin an anonymous sexual relationship there. You and I are going to meet here without knowing anything that goes on outside. At one encounter, he rapes her.
The affair of Paul and Jeanne continues for some time until Paul decides to leave Jeanne. One day she arrives at the apartment and finds that he has packed up and left without warning. He tells her of the recent tragedy of his wife. And as he tells her his life story, they walk into a tango bar, where he continues telling her about himself. The loss of anonymity disillusions Jeanne about their relationship.
She tells Paul she does not want to see him again. Paul, not wanting to let Jeanne go, chases her through the streets of Paris. While running, she continually yells at him to go away and tells him that their relationship is over.
Despite her threats to call the police, he chases her all the way back to her building where she is living with her mother and forces his way into her apartment.
No names here. There is a chronology to this story in terms of the outside events that create the delirium these two wanton individuals express but the world they create seems to operate independent of anything extraneous.
