The Healing Effects of Self-Praise

Renowned writer Abel Znorko, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, lives in voluntary isolation - far from people, in his luxurious log cabin in the middle of the forest. One day, Nicolas Gobert arrives at his door, a journalist from an obscure regional newspaper who has travelled all the way from France to speak with him 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 interview gradually transforms into a psychological duel. Znorko shows no respect for his guest and behaves erratically, yet the journalist persists in his mission. With each new question, it becomes clearer that he did not come for journalistic purposes. Facts emerge that unravel the carefully constructed identity of both men into fragments of half-truths, self-deceptions, and assumptions.

Both men are bound by an unspoken secret - one knows it, the other has no idea. Their confrontation leads them to discoveries that bring them to the very edge of the question of being or non-being.