While Serge and Lucien prepare their film shoot, Sadie and Vito spend three days at the exclusive private swim club in Marseille, accessing it via passes from Lucien's producer. Serge cynically endorses Vito's enjoyment of the club despite—or because of—his pied-noir family's exclusion from such places, scrubbing floors and being mistaken for Portuguese. The club, with its homogenous wealthy white clientele, derives its appeal less from luxury than from its adjacency to the crowded, over-policed Plage des Catalans (Tear Gas Beach), which serves as a constant reminder of what the members are insulated from.

Sadie and Vito lounge, eat free Häagen-Dazs, and observe the regulars, especially an extremely thin, deeply tanned woman with artificial breasts. Vito gossips about Serge's contradictions—railing against Parisian snobbery while refusing to handle recycling. Amélie joins them after finishing her location work and jokes about the tanned woman, recalling a friend who fatally overdosed on water, mistaking it for selfhood.

On Sadie's final day, a violent mistral wind shuts down filming and empties the city. Claiming an errand, Sadie slips away to handle private correspondence, then walks to the deserted swim club. From the café window, she watches the churning sea hurl waves and trash over the jetty, where the tanned woman lies alone, sunbathing through the storm, eyes shut, gripping her towel as though already airborne.