An American intellectual and a simple guy from Morocco. Hannah and Tariq meet by chance in Paris, become friends and help each other understand what lessons of the 20th century still remain unlearned. The life of Paris under the rule of the Third Reich, the struggle of the heroes of the Resistance and the ethnic conflicts of the post-war period - there are many dark pages in the history of France. Why do we need to know all this? To think, together with the classic of British literature Sebastian Faulks, once again: what can be sacrificed for the sake of happiness - one’s own and others’, and what sacrifices are unacceptable.