An hour and a half (despite the title) of the life of a singer who learns she is merely being put on display. She visits a fortune teller who predicts stomach cancer (though after she has left), which is what she is afraid she might be dying of. In this period she meets with her boyfriend in a room full of cats and swings, then her composers in the same place. After deciding to work against the capriciousness the composers pigeonhole her with, she puts on a black dress, takes off her wig, and tries to see things from a different perspective, learning much from her friend Dorothée, who poses nude for sculptors, and a passing soldier named Antoine.