After his first art gallery is wiped out by a nearby bombing, Sander Speck moves his business to Fauborg Saint-German, a wealthy and quiet area in Paris. Around a year after the move, Speck’s wife, Henriette, decides to leave their marriage and hurls the insult “You Fascist!” out the window of her taxi. Despite their strained parting, he misses the steady influence on his wife. The location of his new art gallery is only in proximity to a small bookstore whose seller is a definitive right-wing supporter that regularly displays books about Mussolini and other Fascist icons. As an art gallery owner, Speck is determined to curate a May-June retrospective show that will bring Paris out of its polarized artistic views between the Left and Right supporters. He has just the artist in mind for the show, Herbert Cruche, a deceased and most undiscovered Parisian painter. Many of his paintings are currently owned by a powerful senator who was charmed Cruche’s beautiful wife, Lydia. Speck obtains Lydia’s number and contacts her about displaying Cruche’s work. She directly tells him it is not for sale, but he brushes it off as the normal procedure with old widows of famous artists. Feeling confident in his ability to change her mind, Speck starts visiting Lydia’s home often. She allows him into the storage space filled with paintings but still refuses to budge on her decision. Speck angrily explains how big and impactful the show could be, but Lydia refuses on the grounds that God does not want it to happen. While making small chat, Lydia also reveals that her late husband was extremely anti-American, especially during World War II. It is clear now that Cruche was an indisputable Fascist, but that fact does not change Speck’s plans for the show. To Speck’s great anger, Lydia reveals that she has agreed to lend Cruche’s work to an Italian art gallery and later to Speck’s. He believes that she stole his idea and realizes that she has been the one manipulating him all along. By the time he receives the paintings, the Italian will have taken all the credit. Last minute, Lydia informs him that changed her mind and will allow him to take the paintings first. They will renegotiate the terms and money, and he will have to pay more. While his bus drives away from Lydia, he calls out the window “Fascist!” three times to her. After the bus takes him back, he receives a flyer with a message that is indistinguishably Fascist and anti-Fascist.