1940. The Germans march into Paris. In a hotel room is Paul Seidler, exhausted by his escape from a camp. In the next room, Weidel, a writer, shoots himself. Paul switches his identity with the dead man, and heads towards Marseille with Weidel』s papers. Paul indeed wants to leave Europe, leave the w…1940. The Germans march into Paris. In a hotel room is Paul Seidler, exhausted by his escape from a camp. In the next room, Weidel, a writer, shoots himself. Paul switches his identity with the dead man, and heads towards Marseille with Weidel』s papers. Paul indeed wants to leave Europe, leave the war, leave the upcoming Nazi terror. In Marseille, he meets a woman pursuing a desperate search, Marie. Weidel』s wife. She had been told her husband was in Marseille. She has no clue she is going after a ghost, neither that this ghost is actually Paul. Paul falls in love with her. He dreams of going away with her, on the Montevideo, of making her forget Weidel. Paul and Marie become close to each other. Marseille is full of refugees. They are ghosts too, they also dream of going to a place where, maybe, someday, they might become human beings again : Mexico, America, Shanghai… But Paul wants to exist now, here. He wants to love, breathe, touch, be. He doesn』t want to give Marie up to the ghosts, to the dead. He refuses to be a ghost himself.詳情