Painter dedicated to figurative painting in oil, Alain rejects the diktats of the time. Isolated by his artistic approach and in his workshop in the heart of the forest, he joined each week in Paris his mistress Lukardis and a group of chic night owls. When Poppyea, a young Israeli woman whose professional ambition is only matched by amorous determination, comes to life, her life changes. But when Poppée is pregnant with a child Alain thinks to be the father, while promising his lover the exceptional orders of one of the most prominent collectors of the place, he can no longer unravel the complexity of his feelings: love, desire for paternity, interest? Heaving, love passion becomes intolerable grip and ends up reversing violently, until a heart attack put an end to its crazy course. Alain flees into drugs, before being reborn thanks to the memory of the very young Emina, angel torn between her demons and her fierce attachment to a radical vision of the world that she shares with the painter. The initiatory journey that leads him to Andalusia to find the girl, then the eventful return to an inseparable real of painting, Mirror of the carnal relationship and trouble he had with Poppée, his love for Emina is imbued with a saving sweetness. She is his muse, he is his savior, throughout a romance that takes us through southern Europe, its beauties, its ghosts, its inhabited cities and isolated roads. The crossed paths of art and love, or the craziest of adventures and the only one worthy of a deliquescent West.