The second young man forces the first one to throw away his nun's clothing and then makes him stand with his face to the wall, as if in disgrace. Another young man, whom we see only from behind, dressed in lighter clothing, arrives in the apartment, gesturing angrily at him. The young woman goes to answer the door and does not return. The young man is roused from his rest by the sound of a door-buzzer ringing (represented visually by a Martini shaker being shaken by a set of arms through two holes in a wall). The subsequent title card reads "around three in the morning". She finds the young man in the next room, dressed in his nun's garb in the bed. The young man chases after her, but she traps his hand, which is infested with ants, in the door. As he is unable to pursue, the young woman escapes the room. The young man corners her as she reaches for a racquet in self-defense, but he suddenly picks up two ropes and drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments, two pumpkins, and two rather bewildered priests (played by Jaime Miravilles and Salvador Dalí) who are attached by the ropes. The young woman pushes him away as he drifts off and she attempts to escape by running to the other side of the room. The young woman resists him at first, but then allows him to molest her as he imagines her nude from the front and the rear. The young man seems to take sadistic pleasure in the androgynous young woman's danger and subsequent death, and as he gestures at the shocked young woman in the room with him, he leers at her and gropes her breasts. The young man and the young woman watch these events unfold from the apartment window. She is then run over by a car and a few bystanders gather around her. The androgynous young woman contemplates something happily while standing in the middle of the now busy street clutching the box. The crowd clears when the policeman places the hand in the box previously carried by the young man and gives it to the young woman. She pokes at a severed human hand with her cane while surrounded by a large crowd held back by policemen. There is a cut to an androgynous young woman, with bobbed hair and dressed in rather masculine attire, in the street below the apartment. A slow transition occurs focusing on the armpit hair of the young woman as she lies on the beach and a sea urchin at a sandy location. The young man and the young woman stare at his hand, which has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge. Later, the young woman assembles pieces of the young man's clothing on a bed in the upstairs room, and concentrates upon the clothing. She emerges from the building and attempts to revive the young man.
She goes to the window and sees the young man lying on the curb, his bicycle on the ground. She hears the young man approaching on his bicycle and casts aside the book she was reading (revealing a reproduction of Vermeer's The Lacemaker). A cut occurs to the young woman from the first scene, who has been reading in a sparsely furnished upstairs apartment. A slim young man ( Pierre Batcheff) bicycles down a calm urban street wearing what appears to be a nun's habit and a striped box with a strap around his neck.
The subsequent title card reads "eight years later". Another cut occurs to the cloud passing in front of the moon, then a cut to a close up of a hand slitting the eye of an animal with the razor (which happens so quickly the viewer may believe it was the woman's eye), and the vitreous humour spills out from it.
She calmly stares straight ahead as he brings the razor near her eye. There is a cut to a close-up of a young woman ( Simone Mareuil) being held by the man. He then opens the door, and idly fingers the razor while gazing at the moon, about to be bisected by a thin cloud, from his balcony. A man (Luis Buñuel) sharpens his razor at his balcony door and tests the razor on his thumb. The film opens with a title card reading "Once upon a time".
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