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Three disparate gentlemen—each a portrait of his own era—become irrevocably entranced by the same enigmatic woman whose likeness hangs in a shop window, captured in a single, luminous photograph. Their fascination evolves into an obsessive pilgrimage, leading them to the remote Hungarian estate where the subject of their reverie lives in hermetic seclusion. Confronted with the stark reality of a life far removed from the ethereal tableau they have constructed, the trio collectively elect to preserve the myth, abandoning any intention of a face‑to‑face encounter. The film thus dissects the architecture of desire, the peril of idealization, and the quiet tragedy of self‑imposed illusion.