For the young inhabitants of a French coastal town ravaged by the economic crisis the passage to adulthood is uncertain. With little prospects for work the young drift about in an aimless search of love, romance and companionship. The spectacularly beautiful Alice is frightened to break free of the disciplinarian hold of her conservative parents who she still lives with. She conducts a secret affair with Matt, who works as a mechanic at a local garage on the brink of going bust. Meanwhile best pals Chance and Alex have turned to vandalism and petty crime as they struggle to make ends meet on a fishing boat. A married couple with a penchant for perverse games have become foreign to each other. They yearn for inspiration. However, the lives of each of these disparate characters are soon changed by an encounter or liaison with C cille, a young woman whose sexual appetite and lust for experiences of the flesh belies a deeper sadness. Q explores the ennui and eroticism of this village, where the banal and beautiful coexist and where sex is perhaps the only true escape.