In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of blackmail.
40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
Christian Vadim (born 18 June 1963) is a French actor. He is the son of actress Catherine Deneuve and film director Roger Vadim. He made his film debut in 1983, working with his father in the film Surprise Party, and appeared in Éric Rohmer's Full Moon in Paris the following year. In 1999, he played Bloch in Time Regained (directed by Raúl Ruiz), which also starred his mother Catherine Deneuve. He then worked again with Ruiz on Love Torn in a Dream (2000), Savage Souls (2001), A Place Among the Living (2003), That Day (2003) and Night Across the Street (2012). Source: Article "Christian Vadim" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.