Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. One “romantic” mistake cost him his family and his job. When a scandal broke out and ruined his life, Harry fled… to Paris. He drags out a miserable existence in one of the bleak quarters of the French capital, convinced that nothing and no one can save him anymore. But very unexpectedly, love enters Harry’s life…
However, Margit—lonely, elegant, and refined Hungarian émigré—keeps her distance. Harry is offended that she accepts him only in her apartment in Paris’s Fifth arrondissement, and only twice a week. Still, his dissatisfaction quickly moves to the background. More and more often he finds himself thinking that with his beloved something dark has entered his life too.