Once again, we have before us a delicate, poetic love story—more precisely, three love stories at once. Endless and endlessly engaging, they resonate on different levels. Their heroes have been torn out of their shared past, but they retain a bond with one another, illuminating what it means to be a family—or alone—in the middle of the whole white world. The narration is steeped in the idea of a double: two personalities in one shell. That is why a Californian farm is reflected in an old French manor, the events of World War I echo with television reports of the war in the Persian Gulf, and a card cheat seems to merge with a gypsy guitarist on the other side of the Atlantic…