The Essence of Things

<p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>An extraordinary 1972 California heist begins decades before in Paris in 1935 when Jacques Dumont a simple welder embarks on a sting that would shake the world. E<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ncountering </span>a feisty Roma teen Gadjo they develop a friendship that plays out across decades and culminates in a remarkable crime ripping apart all of Dumont's notions of love and human relations. Dumont's vision threatened by a destitute trapeze artist named Jean-Luc and a world war becomes immersed in a soul search for the core of things from his relationships with lovers Sophie and Mari to his life's one true love: Eiffel's Tower.</p><p><br></p>