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The novel follows Olivier Bertin, a celebrated painter in Paris, who has a long love affair with the married Countess de Guilleroy. Their relationship, once stable, is shaken when the Countess’s daughter Annette grows up and enters society. Olivier finds himself torn between his aging passion for the mother and his new fascination with the daughter. The story explores themes of love, jealousy, aging, vanity, and the painful passing of time.