The Healing Effects of Self-Praise

Love is both the reason and the cause why the famous writer Abel Znorko, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, lives far from people and civilization - he has fled from it, hidden from it, and denied all its power. In solitude, in his luxurious cabin in the middle of forests, meadows and groves, he enjoys life as a hedonist, yet drowns in his own loneliness.

One day, Nicolas Gobert appears at his door - an alleged journalist from an obscure regional newspaper. He has traveled all the way from France to speak with the arrogant author about his latest novel, Denied Love - a book composed of intimate love letters addressed to a mysterious woman with the initials H. M. What begins as an ordinary conversation gradually becomes a dangerous psychological duel between two men with completely different views on life, relationships, sexuality, and the very nature of love. Yet they are bound by an unspoken secret - one knows something, the other has no idea about the skeleton in the closet. Znorko shows no respect for his guest and behaves chaotically and confusedly, but the visitor from France pursues his goal like a bulldog, and with each new question it becomes clearer that he did not come for journalistic work. Truths surface that shatter the carefully constructed identity of both men into fragments of half-truths, self-deceptions, and assumptions.

Questions multiply. What is the writer hiding? And what does the mysterious journalist know? As the mysteries unfold, the game of truth becomes crueler. The two men, with their completely different views on love, relationships, sexuality, and life itself, exchange blows like two boxers in an imaginary ring - and ultimately arrive at shocking revelations that lead them to the very edge of their own existence, with information they must live with from that moment on.