An Australian couple visiting Pau, France in the summer of 2003 could never have expected that a visit to a local doctor would lead them to an unimaginable encounter. On entering the doctor's empty two-hundred-year-old waiting room above Boulevard des Pyrénées, the couple find an elegant space that seems to have been waiting for their arrival. Awed by the features of the room, they sense an unseen Presence. But they are not the first.Allow your imagination to meet The Presence as she takes you on a necklace of episodes of her fascinating journey through two centuries of French culture, music, art, fashion and history.