A short trip to Toulouse turns into the romance of a lifetime. The hero of the book, a writer, spends two weeks at the festival, where he forever becomes the servant of the Beautiful Lady - the French actress Eva. After leaving France, he learns that he was in the never-existent city of Kerbe and participated in a non-existent festival. The hero who has lost his beloved goes through memories of her like Tarot cards in a deck. Who was she - an actress, a reader, the lord of an Albigensian castle, or a mirage of love that never happened? The hero understands: he must find Eve in order to find and find himself.