Baroness d'Oettingen rubbed shoulders with Apollinaire, Modigliani, the Douanier Rousseau. The journalist and novelist Thomas Snégaroff paints the portrait of Hélène d' Oettingen.
It all started from a drawer. That of a light wooden desk, locked for decades. When he finally manages to open it, he comes across the manuscript of a never-published novel and four charcoal drawings. On one of them he recognizes his great-grandfather, Dimitri.