The song is a chanson d'amour, a love song, and its subject is a chance glance between two strangers in a bar. According to the sources, that brief moment of contact turns into love by the end of the film. The story therefore moves from an encounter between people who do not know each other to a romantic bond, and the song's words follow that movement. The meaning rests on the film's storyline in which the song was first heard as an instrumental theme.
