Harry Anderson was tempted once by the demon of happiness… But he was able to snap out of it in time. Enigmatic… Clearly unhappy, deliberately walled up in his world, Harry is obsessed by all kinds of phobias. At the consulate where he works, he lives a dull life, surrounded by colleagues whom he couldn't care less about. Even so, the normally phlegmatic and well-educated Harry is abnormally irritated by the presence of one of them, Nielsen, the chosen victim of his paranoia. At home, he hardly pays any attention to his daughter, Ingrid, a bubbly teenager, who has a comprehensive attitude towards her father, accepting his silence, absences and difficulty in communicating. He would clumsily like to be a father for her when he can't even manage to be her friend. And so she hopes to find an accomplice in her father's new girlfriend, Anna. Anna, young and beautiful, lives her life by offering herself to generous businessmen. But in this cosmopolitan and cautious city, where the games of love and money get on so well, Anna vaguely feels that the time has come for her to start a new life. Anna, in love, wants to offer Harry all the beauty of the world that he seems to discover thanks to her. Warmed by love and the new friendship that links him to John, a man who is his very opposite, who flirts with women, life and illegality, he reconciles himself with happiness and tries to believe in it… But in attempting to control the situation, he stages his downfall. He won't leave with Anna…
