Antoine Duris teaches at the Lyon Academy of Fine Arts. Colleagues and students love him. It would seem that life was good. But why then does he give up everything and get a job as a hall supervisor at the Orsay Museum in Paris? And why does Modigliani’s portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne turn his life upside down again? A new novel by the famous French writer, whose books have been translated into forty languages. For the first time in Russian!