Plot

A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.

Once a successful concert pianist under his birth name Edouard Saroyan, Charlie Koller is now a pianist playing honky-tonk music in a sleazy Paris bar owned and operated by Plyne, and most in Charlie's current life are unaware of his concert-pianist past. This new life, in which he is caring for his youngest brother, minor Fido Saroyan, is to escape the pain associated with his past life, which included a marriage to waitress Thérèse Saroyan. Charlie has always been a shy, reserved man, coming out of that concert pianist life which has made him retreat further into his shell where he only feels comfortable behind the keyboard. Besides Fido, the only person of any meaning in Charlie's life is his prostitute neighbor Clarisse, who looks after Fido when needed and is Charlie's paid bed partner when he needs human connection. Charlie's life becomes more complex with two developments. First, he is attracted to Léna, a waitress at Plyne's--who is also admired by Plyne himself although he doubts that she would ever be attracted to him. Second: Charlie's eldest brother, not-so-adept criminal Chico Saroyan, solicits his help in eluding two criminal associates, Momo and Ernest, whom he and their last brother Richard Saroyan bilked in what was their only job together.—Huggo

Charlie Koller is a piano player in a bar; waitress Léna is in love with him. One of Charlie's brothers, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. It is revealed that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuoso who gave up after his wife's suicide. Charlie must now deal with Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother, whom he's raising), and Léna.—Yepok

While playing piano in a bar, pianist Charlie Koller is approached by his crook brother Chico Saroyan, who has been chased by two gangsters. Charlie helps him escape, but he upsets the two criminals, and they watch Charlie and waitress Léna, who is in love with him. Shy Charlie tells his past to Léna, when he was the former famous pianist Edouard Saroyan, and he quit his successful career after his waitress wife Thérèse Saroyan's suicide. When his brother Fido Saroyan, whom he raised, is kidnapped by the gangsters, Charlie must take an attitude with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil