An old bourgeois man, who lives alone with his only servant, is going to sell the house. He doesn't get along with his son, Jean, and in his actual life, he's passionate about nothing but literature. An autumn afternoon, he restarts reading the novel, which he started several days ago, and he enters the world of imagination. However, he does not know what's waiting for him in the end and this end, would it be the reality or his own imagination..