By day he studies, and at night the narrator works as a taxi driver. He mingles with thieves and pimps, suicides and homeless people, the insane and alcoholics. Three women from the demi-monde have made him their confidant: Raldy, the former luxury prostitute, Alice, her unfaithful student, and Suzanne with the gold tooth. She has made the leap into bourgeois life and almost found happiness with Fedortschenko. Gasdanow, who earned his living as a taxi driver in exile, tells the story of the lives of immigrants in 1930s Paris, caught between burning nostalgia and a chaotic present. "Nocturnal Paths" is a masterpiece of literary modernism.