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On both sides of the same bed, their accounts of 24 years of marriage were so different. Half sea water, half fire, half innocent and content, half scheming. Lotto remembers that he proposed to Mathilde, that she immediately agreed without thinking, and that they began dating like crazy. Mathilde remembers that when Lotto proposed, she looked down at him and said, "No!" The next morning, he woke up next to her, fully clothed. Lotto remembers their first apartment as a basement in Manhattan, where they spent happy, sweet and romantic times. Mathilde remembered the shabby apartment, how she scrimped to make ends meet, the rice and beans they had for dinner, and all the sacrifices, endurance, and pain she had endured over the years. Lotto considered himself a shining star on the stage, a screenwriter as talented as gold. Mathilde knew how desperate and failed he was, and it was she who polished his script over and over while he slept. Lotto was interviewed and said that when he was a child, a leech stung his skin. He did not move and let it burrow into his leg and suck blood because he was too lonely and he needed friends. Mathilde said that this was actually her childhood experience. In the first half, everything Lotto tells is enviable. His wife is an angel sent by God, and they are tacit soul mates. In the second half, Mathilde is quietly planning a great change in Lotto's fate. During these 24 years of marriage, she has never stopped revenge and wreaking havoc.