'The possession of power no matter how enormous does not bring the knowledge how to use it.'
Raphael a failed writer finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can however he discovers a magic leather skin in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant him his every wish but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of nineteenth-century France.
