Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950; where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette'; an activist en route to Cuba; an icy; remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as and however poorly she treats him; Ricardo is doomed to worship her. Gifted liar and irresistible; maddening muse - does Ricardo ever know who she really is?