As the film flies headlong through its jagged, jigsaw shards of broken narrative — time - skipping through the German invasion of France, a brief interlude in Dunkirk, and a dishonestly «clean»
killing field strewn with the bodies of French schoolgirls — the two lovers try to reconnect, re-establish the crumbled social strata of antebellum England, and pretend that anybody besides them gives much of a shit.