While working on a thesis about female criminals, student Stanislas Prévine (André Dussollier) discovers the ideal subject in the form of the beautiful Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont), a seductive woman accused of murdering her past loves. As Camille relates her tales of crime and passion to Stanislas, she slowly mesmerizes the impressionable young scholar. Falling under her spell, the smitten Stanislas risks meeting the same fate as her earlier beaux.