Ethan is a disaffected film maker resentful (even if he says he isn't) that his girlfriend Claire is more successful in her acting career than he is at writing and directing. He's a joyless, angry man who frankly doesn't deserve the company of his own hand, let alone another human being.
She gets a good role, he casts her best friend as his lover, it make things awkward between them and she starts having feelings for the director of her new film. Which is not surprising since he is about 200 times less of an ass than Ethan is.
The synopsis of the film on IMDB talks about Claire slipping into a fantasy world as the stress of the situation gets to her, but this is not well supported by what actually appears on screen. Apparently the movie was largely improvised which would certainly go some way to explaining its sometimes rather vague sense of progression and development.
It's a shame in the end that the film wasn't produced from a more developed script: one in which the supposed synopsis was actually followed more strongly. Or you know, one where some other actual plot was introduced and followed-through. I say a shame because this is quite well shot and solidly acted. The people involved are technically competent at the "putting things on the screen" part of the film-making equation, they just seem to have fatally neglected the "communicating the point of it all" aspect.
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