A love that must not be is all the more tempting for it. Head and heart go their separate ways. How far can one let their feelings guide them, accepting the possibility of hurting others in the process? Nicolas de Staël, who reaches the peak of his artistic creation in his greatest distress, encounters Jeanne. Both, bound and with families, fall in love with each other. One is plagued by guilt, while the other is overwhelmed by total infatuation and recklessness. Nathalie Chaix creates in this multi-layered novel a fictional story that could not be more beautiful and painful. Each facet of the relationship and the work of the French artist Nicolas de Staël is vividly enhanced by Christina Röckl's images.