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An aspiring painter named Dustin Pennett (Harrelson) is on a search for love, sex, and inspiration when he meets a woman named Christiane (Pouget) at an art gallery. They spend the night together at her apartment, but the next morning she has disappeared, leaving Dustin heartbroken. He visits her family home in Southern California and learns from her younger sister that Christiane ran away at a young age after having an abortion, also finding out that "Christiane's" apartment was actually a display room she had broken them into.

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