Simon has often thought about leaving home and at 25 he realizes that he aught to be independant, but as his father controls the purse strings, he doesn't believe that he could earn sufficient money as a watercolour artist to pay the bills.
Life at home has never been easy for him, especially since he suspects his father of dealing dishonestly with people and that his lawyers have protected him from being sent to jail.
He has no real proof, but then one day the lawyers tell him that they want him to lie in court on his father's behalf by supplying him with an alibi. Simon rejects this idea outright, but the lawyers then persuade him that his dad has done a lot for him and that this is the least he can do to repay the debt.
From that moment on Simon's only thoughts are about how he can escape from the house without being detected. The opportunity to do this presents itself one afternoon when his father and his lawyers are eating lunch down at the pool. and drinking far too much wine.
So after taking note of this, Simon quickly packs a small travel bag and straps his easel to it and then quietly makes his way out of the front door. He then hails a passing taxi and goes to the airport, where he books a seat on the first available flight, which is to Paris. Once on board he decides that he might just be able to earn sufficient cash by painting portraits on the banks of the Seine, -along with all the other artists.
Things do not go quite as planned, until one day when a woman that has often watched him painting, tells him that she is his mother, whom he has not seen since he was four years old. And...