Synopsis:

One day the clochard Andreas meets, under the bridges of the Seine, a stranger who offers him 200 Francs. At first he doesn’t want to accept it : his sense of honour prevents him to do that, since he knows that he will never be able to repay it. The stranger suggests he gives it back, when he is in a position to, to “Little Therese”, the statue of Sainte Therese de Lisieux in the Sainte Marie de Batignolle church.

From that moment on, the life of Andreas Kartak appears as a long sequel of finding and losing himself on the way to that church, trying to keep his word.

It seems like he now wants only one thing in his life – give that money back – and at the same time he is willingly diverted from this goal by countless Pernods, by women met by chance, by old friends who reappear as ghosts. He knows however that he is on his way to redemption. Eventually, he understands that he is still a living part of this world, and he is therefore ready to accept his fate, his death, in a peaceful way.