On the morning of his thirty-sixth birthday, Mortimer Negrupolis got up, washed, shaved, put on a strict black suit and... went to bed to wait for the clock to strike eleven and he would die. How all his male ancestors died - at exactly eleven in the morning on the day of his 36th birthday. Mortimer thoroughly prepared for the fateful date: he quit his job, sold his car, refused to rent an apartment... But the family curse failed, everything did not go according to plan, and it turned out that “returning to life” is not so easy. Marie-Sabine Roger (b. 1957) is a French writer, author of several novels, winner of a number of literary awards. In recent years, he has been working a lot for cinema as an author of feature film scripts.