Mércedès breaks off a difficult relationship with Johnny, a jealous and possessive young North African. Then another love affair begins with Pierre, a journalist who abandons her.

The painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old theatre actress, Mércedès and Johnny, a jealous and possessive young North, African and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an "established" journalist, Pierre she meets in the subway. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can only understand love in terms of life and death, an attitude that generally makes love appear dramatic, but at least burning and flickering, like the flame that glows in her heart.—jsanchez