It's immediately clear that he likes David. Yet when Guillaume comes over to talk with Jacques, David and Giovanni end up chatting and buying each other drinks. As soon as they walk in, Jacques notices the new bartender, Giovanni, and he tries to flirt with him. The two of them go out to a gay bar owned by a man named Guillaume. Jacques is a lonely gay man who has to buy friends. He calls up an acquaintance, Jacques, in order to ask for money. When David leaves Brooklyn and moves to Paris, he's very poor. Yet, as David grows more similar to his father, the two of them grow apart. Ellen is an overbearing presence in the house, whereas his father, though an alcoholic, just wants to be friends with David. He grows up with his father and his aunt Ellen. (Now we jump into a flashback and learn about David's past.) David's mother dies when he is five. David was ashamed afterwards and, now, looking back, he thinks that he has been running from that experience his entire life. David remembers when he was a young man in Brooklyn and had his first romantic experience with another man. Now Hella is on a boat back to America, and Giovanni is going to the guillotine. In Paris, he proposed to a girl named Hella, but at the same time he had an affair with a man named Giovanni. He remembers the events of his life that have gotten him to this sad point. David is drinking alone, watching night fall from the window of his house in the south of France.
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