Is the gold solid or poorly plated steel? Will the stains of the past ever be removed? Will the snow ever melt? Wendall Möllar, a young man from Berlin begins his studies in Paris with a head full of fantasies and a past full of thorns. Through means of pure coincidence a relationship blooms and intervenes with what he thought was valuable. Elton Elwood, a hot-shot lawyer, wilting under the pressure of family life and work, intertwines his life with a person of completely opposite nature. The new found bud of their relationship brings a second wind and new calling to his once stagnant life.