Paris in the Present Tense is a profound view of life and its complexities through the cleansing lens of art and memory. So meet Jules Lacourt - cellist, composer, Sorbonne lecturer, Algeria war veteran; his parents died just before the liberation of France from fascist occupation, and he carried this injury through his life. He always fell in love strongly and with lightning speed, with women rightfully worthy of love and not deprived of it, and even after the death of his wife, with whom he lived all his life, he did not lose this habit. Once his old friend, the world famous philosopher Francois Ehrenstamm, suggested that Jules write an advertising jingle for the world's largest insurance company, Aycorn, which promised a fabulous fee, and Jules accepted this challenge - there were still no other ways to find money for the treatment of a grandson suffering from leukemia...