Their meeting was predetermined many years before that summer Paris evening. The young mysterious stranger became an obsession, torment, and the greatest joy in the world for Édouard de Chavigny, owner of a huge jewelry company. A few weeks of wild passion—and Élene disappears without a trace… In Édouard’s life there had been too many losses for him to accept this one as well. But only after five years he will meet again Élène Hart—the famous film star, the mother of his child…