Life and nothing else

Fifty-year-old Pierre Tarault is a typical contemporary: Always in a hurry, always stressed, constantly overwhelmed by his job. Everything gets on his nerves, the daily grind, his relationship with his wife, which has frozen into a routine, his children, with whom he no longer talks, his job, his colleagues. Then, during a routine check-up, his doctor tells him that he is suffering from a very rare and incurable disease. From that moment on, nothing is the same anymore. Now, with only a foreseeable time left to live and forced to put his affairs in order" as his doctor puts it, he begins to reflect on his life so far. Suddenly he sees himself, he sees all things, all people anew, now that he is threatened with the loss of life, he discovers life. In very sensitive, tender and often very funny scenes, the author draws very unspectacularly and never depressingly the path of a man whose view of the world changes completely in the face of death and who thus finds the secret of happiness and his love of life.

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