"They went along the Rue de Siene, hardly even seeing the street, so wrapped were they in each other. Jean-pierre, a guide who wants to please, was explaining the curiosities of the neighbourhood, while she listened in silence. There, where the pavement narrowed, it seemed to him that they accidentally brushed hands. Skin against skin. And he shivered. They turned into Rue de Buci, full of tourists sitting on shady terraces, and immediately went on to the Boulevard Saint-Germain". Jean Pierre Zanardi, a Rive Gauche gallery owner, is a free spirit. Paulina Homs arrives in Paris from her quiet family life in Barcelona for the wedding of a cousin.