Seventeen short stories by the Frenchman Serge Joncourt are stories about love and loneliness, simple and complex, like life itself. More precisely, stories about loneliness and love. The fact that it is love that gives rise to loneliness makes us feel it even more acutely, giving rise to a passionate desire to avoid this torment of unity with ourselves. For Joncourt, love is always nearby. She is almost inaudible behind the noise of the big city and is not visible in the brilliance of its evening lights. It is hidden in everyday life, hidden in a dark corner on the next street, seen in a semi-familiar voice in the telephone receiver, sleeping on a bed next to it or behind the wall in the next room, hiding behind the windows of a passing car... And the main thing is that each of you will definitely find in these watercolor sketches on the theme of love at least one of his short stories, as if copied from his life by a brilliant impressionist artist.