Charley Mason a nice young Englishman from a responsible privileged homegoes to Paris for a fiveday Christmas holiday. But instead of seeing thesights he winds ... » 

Charley Mason a nice young Englishman from a responsible privileged homegoes to Paris for a fiveday Christmas holiday. But instead of seeing thesights he winds up involved with the Paris underworld where he hears thestories of Robert Berger a petty thief and convicted murderer and meetsLydia a Russian prostitute and the gaunt fanatical revolutionary Simon.After his adventures take him to French Guinea and the Devils Island prisoncolony Charley will begin to question everything he once believed abouthimself. Eventually Charley Mason returns to his comfortable home in London but he returns irrevocably changed with all of his previous assumptions andbeliefs shattered. «