 After flying out to Paris for Fashion Week, she calls the narrator to inform him that she is leaving him for another man and to pursue her career.Initially hopeful that she will return someday, the narrator eventually resorts to searching for her at a fashion event, publicly humiliating himself while failing to garner more attention from her than a brief look.He obsesses over every item she owned in his apartment, every modeling photo and every club she visited, even repeatedly visiting a mannequin based on her.