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This book is a script and dialogue written by Marguerite Duras and Gérard Jarlot for a film directed by French New Wave director Henri Colby. It is a text that writes about the themes of war trauma, memory and forgetting, and desperate love. Delise, the owner of a cafe by the Seine in Paris, accidentally discovered that a homeless man walking in front of the cafe looked like her husband who had been missing for many years. In order to confirm her judgment, she constantly asked the waitress to talk to him, met him on the street, invited family members to talk about the past in front of him, and even invited him to her home for dinner. While dancing together, Desra touched a big scar on the man's head. With fear, surprise, and grief intertwined, she finally confirmed that this foolish homeless man was the husband Abaire she had been waiting for. He lost his memory forever under the torture of the fascists. Delise called his name in pain and excitement, but he raised his hands numbly and habitually, just like in the concentration camp...