Victor left the province behind and moved to Paris to study. He comes from simple backgrounds, the pressure at the university is high. Victor is lonely and feels invisible. Only with Mathieu, a boy from the class under him, Victor smokes a cigarette every now and then. When Mathieu jumps to his death, everything changes for Victor. Suddenly he, the victim's only friend, becomes visible. His fellow students suddenly became interested in him, and slowly he developed a relationship with Mathieu's father that he never had with his own father. "A Winter in Paris" is a sensitive and tender book about what holds us humans together.