Historien om en oerfaren svenskas passionerade men ödesdigra möte med en berömd fransk konstnär i 1880-talets Paris speglar Victoria Benedictssons livsöde och kärlekshistorien med den tongivande kritikern Georg Brandes.
Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.
