Pierre is a famous writer and explorer. But one drunken night, a terrible fall leaves him in a coma. When he wakes up, barely standing up and against everyone's advice, he decides to explore France on foot, along the smallest paths.
Using fiction to chart the rise (between the Sixties and the Eighties) of the charismatic and highly mediatised businessman Bernard Tapie (who died in October and was, among the many other twists and turns in his life, head of a professional cycling team
Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand.