Virginia Houston experienced severe psychological trauma as a child. It seems to her that the future does not promise anything good, that love is never lasting and always ends in suffering. She moves from place to place, never staying anywhere for long, afraid of any attachments: to the city, work, people... Having once met the man she fell in love with, she runs away from him in panic, disappearing in an unknown direction. But Michael Yates, her abandoned lover, in search of Jean, it seems he is ready to turn the whole world upside down...