In the early 1980s, Jean Roscoff is a young left-wing academic with a promising career; almost forty years later, no one remembers him. Already retired and recently divorced, he tries to make a name for himself in the French cultural scene by writing a book about a virtually unknown American poet who died in an accident in France in the early 1960s. After its publication by a small publishing house, Roscoff's quiet life will be turned upside down when what seemed like a harmless essay sparks a controversy on social media that will put him in the spotlight of public opinion.

The fall from grace of a naive antihero in the era of woke culture serves as Quentin's brilliant x-ray of our times. A hilarious and sharp satire full of nuances on the culture of cancellation and the generational clash that has been awarded the Prix de Flore and the Prix Maison Rouge.