David Fonkinos, crowned with two prestigious awards in 2014 - the Renaudo Prize and the Goncourt Lyceum Prize - is one of the ten most popular writers in France. His novels are successful in thirty-five countries. A film was made based on the famous “Tenderness” with Audrey Tautou in the title role, and the book’s circulation has long exceeded a million. The hero of the novel “I’m Better” is the same age as the author, he is just over forty. He has everything he needs to be happy: a good job, a beautiful wife, two children, friends. And suddenly - acute pain in the back. Doctors shrug their shoulders and advise looking for psychological reasons. You have to deal with your past, sort out your relationships with your children, your parents, your wife. Well-being is bursting at the seams, and the search for healing turns into a real quest.