Ismail Weier is a French film director who is making a film featuring diplomat Ivan. Like his master and father-in-law Bloom, Ismail is still suffering from the loss of his wife. At the same time, however, he has started a new life with Sylvia, who has become a light in Ismail's life. Then Carlot suddenly came back from the dead, and after Sylvia left, Ismail rejected Carlot, who was driven mad by everything in his life. He interrupted filming and returned to his hometown, the northern French city of Rube, where he lived in isolation, as if surrounded by ghosts.