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Poland. Weronika, who sings beautifully, suffers from a heart condition. She has to choose -
continue singing with all the strain and stress which this involves and risk her life, or give
up her singing career. During a concert she suffers a heart attack and dies. France. Veronique
is Weronika's double. She, too, has a beautiful voice and a heart condition. But without knowing
it, she shares Weronika's wisdom. When Weronika suffers, Veronique senses that she must avoid
the situation which leads to the pain. Veronique rejects her singing career and teaches music
at a primary school.
One day, Alexandre, a puppeteer and story writer, visits for school. She
is entranced by him and reads the books he has written. Days later she receives mysterious
messages - an empty cigar box, a shoe lace, a cassette recording of various sounds made in a
station cafe. She finds the station cafe and sees Alexandre waiting for her. In the hotel room
where they make love, Alexandre finds the photographs which Veronique took when she visited
Poland. He sees Weronika, thinking it's Veronique. It is only now that Veronique, the other, an
identical one, of Weronika; he wants to use Veronique's life and emotions for his own purposes.
Veronique leaves and returns home to her father.
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