Synopsis:

Paris, 1937: Kurt Haber, a gifted young philosopher and contributer to the growing continental existentialist movement, is becoming increasingly obsesssed with his brilliant, cruel mentor, who delights in intellectually humiliating and sexually leading on his student. When the Spanish Civil War breaks out, Haber is convinced he must be true to his philosophy of personal responsibility and goes to fight the Fascist forces, joining the International Brigade and travelling to Spain. Wounded and exhausted, he risks great personal danger to return to occupied France to see his tutor - only to find that the professor has renounced his philosophy of radical freedom, has married, and is in full collaboration with the Nazi regime. Seeing his world shatter around him, everything he put faith in revealed to be meaningless, and hunted by the Vichy police force as a Jew, a homosexual and a communist sympathiser, Kurt makes a decision - the only one that can allow him a moment of true authenticity amongst the ruins of his philosophy.