One day in the life of Parisienne Juliette Jeanson is presented. Married to garage employee Robert Jeanson, they with two adolescent children, Juliette generally lives a carefree life, which she is able to do on Robert's salary, but which is supplemented by her occasional daytime work, sometimes with her friend Marianne, as a prostitute, she treating that work without emotion. Her day is set within commentary by her, Robert, their children, others in their lives, random Parisians, and/or a whispering off-screen narrator (
Jean-Luc Godard himself), often breaking the fourth wall, about anything and everything from the Vietnam War to the infrastructure boom in Paris making the city more of a modern urban concrete jungle. Human existence within this global environment, both in a practical sense and an existential sense, is often at the core of that commentary.
—Huggo