Vladimir, a young Russian romantic in love with Rimbaud fleeing the Russian mafia, finds himself in a squat in Paris. He is shamefully exploited during a game televised by presenter Victor Lalumiere. The mafia finds him and, to save his skin, Vladimir accepts the proposal of Alexander, a Russian scholar in exile, an experience of soul migration into the body of another. The exchange takes place in the toilets of a cafe. Vladimir finds himself in the skin of his torturer Victor Lalumiere, and the latter, in his.