Jean-Jacques Goldman is dead. He was Etienne’s idol, the star of his teenage years, the symbol of an era when anything seemed possible, when he still had dreams and illusions. The news is devastating, the awakening, brutal: the promises of a bright future that he'd been raised on were all lies! With that revelation, everything begins to fall apart.

He realizes his life has gone adrift, and isn’t the one he thought he was living. Nothing is what it seems: his wife leaves him for a Rottweiler, his daughter is lascivious and immoral, his son reads the Bible fervently. In the thickening chaos, just one thing keeps him going: looking forward to the gathering in honor of his late idol that will be held in Lyon in a few days.

With this adieu to the totem and glue of the middle class, Aurélien Delsaux shoots at our era on sight, hitting it right in the heart. The disarmingly sincere, equally droll and dramatic tale of existential malaise is told over a backdrop of pop music. It recounts the realization, more overwhelming than ever, that the time has come to admit that we’re nothing like what our teenaged selves thought we’d be. But are we ready?