An unusual story told in the novel by Didier van Covelaert is dedicated to the fate of a “test tube baby”. Francois, a businessman with an iron grip, turning around billions, but always remaining in the shadows, under the influence of a random coincidence, decides to act as a donor and help Simon, a modest toy salesman from a provincial department store, and his wife Adrienne become parents. He does not foresee how far this momentary whim will take them all...Didier van Covelaert (born 1960) is one of the major French writers of our time. As the writer says, he is interested in “the air of time, although it can be difficult to breathe.” Regularly ranked among the bestsellers, van Covelaert's books have been awarded a number of literary prizes, including the Goncourt Prize, and have been translated into more than twenty languages.