In this highly symbolic, moody and artistic film, a young composer supposes that he has given his life over to passion. When his girlfriend dies, he impetuously promises her ghost that he will commit suicide in one month if he doesn't hear the word "passion" from the lips of a woman. The woman he decides to seek the word of life or death from is a French woman named Aphrodite. He became acquainted with Aphrodite, when she was a young girl, in Greece after an air crash which took the lives of all the other passengers. He follows her to Paris and begins his dangerous, suicidal and extremely intellectual game in earnest.
~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide