In the allegorical tale written by Lang""s wife Thea Von Harbou (from her own novel), the luxurious, futuristic, Art Deco city of 2026 - an industrial world with skyscrapers and bridges, was divided or stratified into an upper, elite, privileged class of powerful industrialists and a subterranean, nameless, oppressed and exploited, ant-like worker/slave class.Posing as the former teaching assistant of Mr.Spassky, one of the three scientists who had a "secret job," Clark learned that Spassky had telephoned his hospitalized mother - the call was traced to an abandoned Soviet army base outside Cherkassy, in the Ukraine, where the scientists (including Spassky) had presumably been activating Dressler""s bomb." They stressed that a fight with has-been Balboa was the only one with "marquee value" that could bolster Dixon""s failed popularity - but Dixon was fed up with them and threatened to go back to his old trainer.Adam plays piano in the nearby downstairs bistro.There, Henri shows Adam a picture of his 19 year old girlfriend/fiancee Lise Bouvier (young teen Leslie Caron in her screen debut), a beautiful dancer who works in a French perfume shop.