 Claude Laporte has just died. In fact, he took his own life because, being very ill, he couldn t put up with the suffering it entailed any more. He leaves three children behind him and a great number of notes relative to a manuscript meant to be sent to a publisher. One of his daughters takes possession of these notes and finds out who her father was: someone uncompromising who had been an activist when he was young, later becoming the owner of a country café and a writer in his spare time. A true human being who left a deep mark in the memory of the many people he mixed with every day of his life..