Felix Zac is sponging off of Sophie. Sophie has many virtues, the most remarkable of which is that she puts up with Felix. Which doesn’t mean that she never expresses doubts about her friend’s sanity, since Felix the film buff tends to confuse the silver screen and real life. Felix writes screenplays. Which he never finishes. Until one day, when, touched by a mysterious inspiration, he writes FIN at the end of Anxiety Hospice. The plot is set in La Niche Saint-Luc, where actors from Z series (like B movies, only on TV, and even further down the scale) live out the last years of their existence. In this perfectly respectable institution, a corpse will sow all sorts of havoc. All the more so in that it is just the first of a long series… Felix is convinced that he has finally hit the jackpot: one Isidore Boudini, producer, is interested in his masterpiece. But trouble is in store when our scenarist realizes that La Niche Saint-Luc and its sordid events actually exist outside of his imagination. La Niche is a real retirement home. The same characters Felix described in his screenplay really do live. And the same corpses are cropping up, too... Tribute to the strange and little known world of Z series, game played with the readers, exploration of the intriguing and upsetting world of old age

Humorous, humanist and light-hearted, Z Series, J. M. Erre’s third opus, is extremely entertaining! A screenplay, fruit of Felix Zac’s unbridled imagination, turns out to describe with eerie precision the mysterious and frightening events occurring in a real-life senior-citizens’ home. Where does the truth lie? Where is falsehood? A novel full of surprising plot twists.