Émilien Tessier

Gladys, a woman in her fifties, lives on the fringes of society, without a home, without a health insurance card, without a bank. Nothing matters to her, not even sex, alcohol, or dancing, which she practices with a joyful frenzy. One morning, she meets Eugénie, a friend from high school, by chance. Eugénie tries to help her against her will.

In the North Finistère, in Brittany, it’s late October, the low season. It’s Célèste’s last day of work as a caretaker at a seaside camping ground. Just as she’s getting ready to leave, a child disappears…

Eighteen-year-old Victor loses his parents in a car accident three months before his baccalauréat. He is taken in by his godfather Michel, an enigmatic man who lives in the outbuilding of a chateau with his daughter Caroline, a young woman in her twenties.

A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone dating app.

Following elections organized at short notice and a strange game of alliances, the new Senate president is an ecologist. His reign begins.