The protagonist throughout the movie coaxes the heroine to remember their meeting last summer at a resort in Marienbad. Or Carlsbad. Or somewhere else, it doesn’t matter. What is important is that the heroine begins to believe that they met, and the viewer, trying to follow the logic of the reasoning of the authors of the movie, is finally confused.

At one of the press conferences dedicated to the release of the movie, when asked “Did the heroes meet last summer?” one of the authors answered “yes” and the other – “no”.