Raymond Courreges leads a dissolute life: he has many mistresses, he regularly visits bars and nightclubs. For long years, the man comforts himself with the hope that one day he will meet Maria Cross along his path. And one night—in one of his favorite places—he sees the woman he so desperately wants to take revenge on.
Thanks to this unexpected encounter, the reader is taken back seventeen years, when two men—one a young man and the other his father—were both in love with the same woman. Neither of them could win her, and neither could forget…