Heaven knows no chosen ones

In a small sanatorium high in the Swiss mountains, chance brings together two people playing with death – the fragile, beautiful, but terminally ill Lillian, and an ageing racing driver, Clerfayt, who has come to visit a friend. Refusing to die a slow death under strict medical supervision, Lillian accepts Clerfayt's offer and, deaf to the warnings of experts and friends, leaves the sanatorium with her new acquaintance for Paris. The passionate affair that blossoms between Lillian and Clerfayt has no past and no future; it is a love measured out from one race to the next, from one episode of coughing up blood to another. However, what begins as a casual relationship suddenly starts to become complicated…