"Anna tente de faire le deuil d'un enfant vivant. Son fils s'est perdu dans la drogue, puis dans la rue, une véritable descente aux enfers contre laquelle elle a tout essayé, en vain. La douleur est désormais la seule présence de l'absent, accompagnée par la peur d'Anna de le croiser, la main tendue, et de ne pas le reconnaître. Le roman raconte le parcours de cette femme et de son enfant-vieillard par le biais de fragments touchants, mais jamais...

"Astrid, a professional therapist, starts having an affair with her patient Céline's husband. The strain causes her son David to try to run away from home by booking a flight through Céline's travel agency. When David discloses the affair to Céline she must decide how to deal with the lies and betrayal.

"From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times"--from www.imdb.com.

When her best friend dies unexpectedly, Hannah finds herself left with the task of raising her five-year-old son.