Ispoved pisatelya-izgnannika o tragedii pokoleniya, lishyonnogo rodiny,-o lyubvi, kotoraya ne spasaet ot holoda chuzhogo goroda. Eto ne prosto istoriya lyubvi, no i gluboko lichnaya, proniknutaya bolyu utraty, ispoved pisatelya-izgnannika o tragedii tselogo pokoleniya, lishyonnogo rodiny. Parizh v rasskaze-ne gorod romantiki, a holodnaya dekoratsiya, gde russkie lyudi pytayutsya sogretsya drug o druga, no ih schaste, uvy, uzhe obrecheno.