Still getting over a recent separation, a lonely man rediscovers his love of life thanks to the female voice of his personal assistant’s operating system. 

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In a Los Angeles of the near future that is eco-friendly and purified, where everyone seems happy, Theodore Twombly has a talent for editing love letters that his employer sells to thousands of clients. Melancholy, sweet but depressed since his wife left him, Theodore is drowning in solitude as he comes home every night to play video games. Then he gets a new operating system for his extensive range of computers and handheld devices – an operating system that comes with Samantha, a highly intelligent virtual assistant with an extremely sultry voice. Theodore finds his life turned upside down as he starts to fall for Samantha. She becomes his friend, a confidant who helps him rediscover his love of life...

A generation collapses under the weight of guilt without knowing why, the victim of perpetual blues, always connected but increasingly alone, existing mainly in the imaginary and getting more desperate every day: this is the world Spike Jonze presents in this troubling and bitter fable about the solitude of the modern man and his passion for a piece of software. The result is much more moving than any rom-coms starring actual people. A remarkable film in which Joaquin Phoenix is once again astonishing and that is reminiscent of the socio-critical movies about dehumanizing consumption by Marco Ferreri and the nihilistic worlds of Stanley Kubrick.