Murmurs of the dead drift through the streets of post-war Paris, where a freshly discharged Holden Thompson is recovering from his time on the Western Front. The continuous stream of cigarettes and women do little to pacify the voices of his violent past-or the soured dreams of who he was supposed to be. Under the watchful eye of his beloved brother, and with a few fateful meetings along the way, Holden begins to unravel the threads of his personal tapestry and rewrite his own story.