Before you, in French, is a charming and humorous story of the adventures of... hats. Starting as a comedy, the plot unfolds into a fascinating detective story, and then into a love-spy novel involving the secret services... President Francois Mitterrand forgot his favorite felt hat in a restaurant. Daniel grabbed the hat as a souvenir - and his career took off from there! Then the hat passes into the hands of an aspiring writer, a perfume creator, a wealthy bourgeois, happily changes everyone’s life and is lost again... But, as they say, you can’t escape fate: the talisman hat returns to its owner, who easily wins the next election.