The story takes place mainly in the art circles of present-day Paris, but also in a provincial château, and briefly in China.

Anne is a young French woman working part-time as a guide and as an art gallery assistant in Paris. She meets a promising young artist and lets him enter her gallery – and her life.

Besides his current work, the artist has painted an imitation of Van Gogh, as a personal challenge. It draws the attention of a curator with connections with China and starts a network of art fraud.

Anne's lover is a woman-chaser, unfaithful to her. Her two best female friends get to know about it – for quite different reasons.

What will be the outcome of fake art and fake love ?.

216 pages