内向的波兰裔青年塔尔科夫斯基（罗曼·波兰斯基 Roman Polanski 饰）独自来到巴黎，亚洲希望在此租住一间公寓。这间房之前的房客西蒙·肖（Romain Bouteille 饰）不知出于何种原因跳楼自杀。在西蒙于医院中气绝身亡后，亚洲塔尔科夫斯基顺利地成为了新的房客。乔迁之喜并未给他带来太多欢乐，周遭的压抑气氛无时无刻不在侵扰他的神经。这桩古老的公寓中住着许多古板沉闷的人，他们抱怨塔尔科夫斯基制造过多的噪音、联名排挤其他房客……这个可怜的青年虽然小心应对，却渐渐被他们逼向绝境。塔尔科夫斯基开始意识到西蒙·肖自杀的原因，他同时发现，自己也正被这群怪房客引向毁灭的终点……
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回复 :Abandoned by his father at the age of five and raised in near isolation by a loving, yet emotionally unstable and over-protective mother, the only life Peel Munter has ever known is within the confines of his childhood home. Upon his mother's unexpected death, 30-year-old Peel is left lost and utterly alone. With no job, family, or friends, he must make a choice; live as his mother did, lonely and unsettled, or change the course of his impending fate by breaking out into the unknown, facing the trials and tribulations of an outside world he doesn't understand. Unable to make the house payments, Peel decides to take in a couple of drifters as roommates. After forging what seems to be a burgeoning new family and brotherhood, one of the roommates betrays Peel's trust, compelling Peel to venture out in search of his long-lost, real brothers who had been taken away from him decades ago. Along the way, Peel's lack of cynicism and innocence has an inadvertent, yet powerful effect on those he meets, as he brings a group of marginalized misfits closer to their true home.
回复 :安娜是一个离了婚的单身母亲，她请了年轻的小保姆丽兹照顾她的两个孩子，她不久就发现丽兹有吸毒的问题，而且后者和男人的关系也很随便。
回复 :艾米（布里奇特·米拉 Brigitte Mira 饰）是一名60岁的清洁女工，辛苦工作的她拿着微薄的工资，生活很是清贫。机缘巧合之下，她结识了40岁的阿里（El Hedi ben Salem 饰），他们一起跳了一支舞后阿里提出送艾米回家。夜深了，阿里错过了末班车，只得在艾米家留宿。两个孤独寂寞的人相见恨晚，秉烛夜谈，当艾米为此感到深深的疑虑时，阿里只是淡淡的安慰了她。果不其然，艾米留宿男人的事情很快传遍了大街小巷，邻居同事的指指戳戳教她如坐针毡，无奈的她只得编撰了一个谎言，她说阿里是她的未婚夫。这门婚事毫不意外的遭到了所有人的反对，大家尽己所能的排挤、诋毁这对夫妻，这使得他们决定外出旅行避避风头。回来后两人的境遇有所好转，并不是街坊邻居接纳了他们，而是因为他们有了新的排挤对象。没有了外界的压力，艾米和阿里的感情却又因为内部的矛盾而产生了裂痕。影片用写实的手法展现了一个冷漠、刻薄的社会，探讨了这个社会之中存在的各种歧视以及人性之中孤独又灰暗的一面。
