The director, Xavier Dolan, also co-stars as Francis, a young man who, with his best friend, Marie (Monia Chokri), hovers swoonfully around Nicolas (Niels Schneider), an impulsive, model-like party animal whose mop of golden curls hides the blithering emptiness of his gaze as he leads them on a merry chase of erotic desperation while basking in their adulation.