Pierre, age 58‚Ķ Prisoner of his past… Increasingly unable to cope with loneliness… With time… With the outside world… Uses psychotropic substances… Holes up at home…The only place where he suffers less… Waiting for inspiration… Has a writer’s block… Has a lunch appointment with a friend… An old friend from way back… The friend doesn’t show up… He learns of his sudden death… Has to deal with the law… the family… the loss of the will… His HIV infection… The urgent need to begin a tritherapy… Alone with himself… Pull himself together… See a few friends again… Live out his fantasies… Ends up as a woman wandering around Pigalle…