A young woman, Angela (played by Godard’s muse and future wife Anna Karina), wants to have a baby, but her distant boyfriend, Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy), doesn’t want to impregnate her because ...

exemplified by scenes in which our reluctant soldier begs the debuting Anna Karina to let him photograph her. Karina, a Danish model, came to France and was nurtured and married by Godard.