(1999) A film of violent language and events begins in London with Alan Furnace (Jared Harris), whose expectations for himself have collapsed into being a primary-school teacher and night dj at St Jospeh's Hospital, watching rather than doing, living on a houseboat, waiting for something to happen.

One evening after he sees Beatrice (Asia Argento) in a pub with her two pals, Paul Neville (Rupert Everett) and young Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), he follows her. Armed robberies have been B. Monkey's trade, doing jobs with Bruno, using Paul's place for sanctuary; but Bea wants to retire and go straight. Paul, spending the money on drugs, and Bruno have a falling out; Frank the dealer hasn't received his cut.

Beatrice misses her first date with Alan, who says softly into the microphone that this tune by Django is for a girl in a pub and for those who found love "somewhere once in a street." Beatrice tries to make up for her earlier absence, taking Alan to Paris where she gets sick for two days after eating oysters and they find the Hot Club where Django played during the '30s and '40s, though its closed up. Nevertheless, though the sex gets hot, Beatrice chastises Alan's romantic notions of love as drippy stuff, the moonlight and laughter of songs, whereas love is hard, it's to the death.

Away on a trip together, after Alan speaks admiringly of another couple's car, Bea steals it for them. Unimpressed with the stunt, he sulks; she says to him, "Va fanculo!"

In the aftermath of an incident during which one Alan's students, a boy he's suspected of being abused at home, injures another child, Alan ends up being accused of bruising the boy. With his job on the line, Bea has Bruno accompany her for a visit to the boy's mother, who later drops her charges against Alan; for the favor Bea agrees to pull off one more heist of a jewelry shop. After a nearly botched holdup, she screams at Bruno that she never wants to see him again. Upset with Bea's methods of resolving the problem at school, Alan seeks another teaching position in a rural district far from the city.

Hoping to escape her past by making a new life with Alan, Beatrice makes a mistake of calling Paul to see if he's used the money she gave him to get Frank off his back. Confronting Bruno in their remote location, Alan takes a stand: "I'll die before I'll let anything happen to her."

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