A short trip to Toulouse turns into a romance of a lifetime. The hero of the book, a writer, spends two weeks at the festival, where he forever becomes the servant of the Beautiful Lady - the French actress Eva. After leaving France, he learns that he was in the never-existing city of Kerbe and participated in a non-existent festival. The hero who has lost his beloved goes through the memories of her, like tarot cards in a deck. Who was she - an actress, a reader, a seigneur of an Albigensian castle or a mirage of love that never happened? The hero understands: he must find Eve in order to find and find himself.