In which our narrator, a young and very pregnant American woman working as a model in Tokyo, stops off in London with her Japanese film professor husband, en route to the Cannes film festival. Bored with Brellat, she leaves her husband to his conference on transgressive cinema and heads to France, but at Nice airport she will have an accident that will leave her with no memory of what happened, let alone how it came to be that she has money, a luxurious apartment prone to strange events, why there is burned evidence in the armoire, footsteps above her, a child's voice at a locked and sealed internal door... Innocently, the amnesiac heads out to the film festival taking over the town, a festival to which James Ballard, who has dreamed her accident, and a twelve-year-old boy with revenge on his mind, seek attendence...