

She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.

Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.