Tragicheskiy, polnyy dramatizma roman o velikoy sile lyubvi - lyubvi, kotoraya pered litsom smertelnoy opasnosti sokrushaet lyubye pregrady.
Tyanetsya noch v Lissabone, zhdut svoego chasa emigranty, chudom bezhavshie iz natsistskoy Germanii, chtoby otpravitsya v Ameriku na korable.
V etu noch chelovek, poteryavshiy poslednee, chto ostalos ot ego zhizni, v oskolki razbitoy voynoy, otchayanno ispoveduetsya pered sluchaynym vstrechnym. Noch, kogda za butylkoy deshevogo vina raskryvaetsya krovotochaschaya dusha i rasskazyvaetsya rvuschaya dushu istoriya o strasti, nezhnosti i zhestokosti, o strannoy vernosti i strannoy otvage. . .
