A film about Edmund White: the American writer, icon of the gay world, but also an immense writer, of sensitivity, of style. Edmund White is the author of the founding trilogy, novel-autobiographies: A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, The Farewell Symphony. But also from My Lives, Chaos, City Boy, etc.! We discuss with Edmund White his journey of desire, his "states of desire", his influences. Desire, in all its forms: desire for other men, this changing desire, desire for bodies, these changing bodies, desire and masochism, a masochism as a last absolute offering to the other.