Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed.
