Paris, 1847. Anna doesn’t notice signs of the bloody revolution of 1848 approaching; she only wants to find out who her real parents are—why she is being pursued by an obnoxious red-haired beggar with a disfigured face—and why her adoptive father, Monsieur Carr, is so terrified of a child’s shoe that a sinister drifter left on their doorstep…?
Russia, our days. Polina lives with a husband she can’t stand and feels that her life has shrunk to the size of their apartment—she hardly ever leaves home and communicates with a single best friend via the Internet. But after an attack on her husband, she decides to take fate into her own hands and go to work. Her first client is an unpleasant red-haired Peter with a face disfigured by a scar. He insists that, to fulfill his order, Polina must go to Paris…