When his father leaves home out of the blue one day, Marc suddenly starts to wonder if there’s any point to it all. Look at his life! Work, sleep, vacation, sleep… the rat race! Even Sandra, his live-in girlfriend, doesn’t really love him, nor does he love her. They’re in perfect agreement about that. Yanking out his first white hairs, Marc examines the face in the mirror, his own, and it doesn’t inspire confidence. He needs to do Something. Manage to do something with Meaning! Something to make him Proud. But what?
That’s when he remembers Jeanfrançois, his childhood friend. Jeanfrançois can’t have sold out to a boringly comfortable lifestyle. Jeanfrançois wanted to usher in the revolution, change the world, fight the rich, save the poor, overturn capitalism! He’s got to have an Idea that will appeal to Marc and get him out of his funk.
Their reunion takes place, quietly, over a tough steak. Marc can rest assured: Jeanfrançois hasn’t changed a bit. It’s simple, the revolution still needs to be ushered in. It’s even getting urgent. And to begin with, he needs to get his hands on big fat Hubert Lefur, the head of Canal France. They need to do something spectacular. And Lefur, with that moustache of his, is the perfect target…
Thomas Paris and his sense of humor are back in this weird and wild second novel. Like Koulechov the undertaker, Marc feels a bit out of place in the world. The reunion with his childhood friend will draw him into incredible adventures, which will involve, among other things, a preposterous hostage-taking, an orphan, an old woman and a provocative moustache…
Marc has aged and fallen into a boring routine without really realizing it. Until the day he bravely (or is that recklessly?) decides to Do Something. But what?!