A young researcher sets off from noisy Paris to the distant French countryside. He dreams of studying in detail the rural life and customs of the local residents. The local mayor becomes a guide along the paths of the Swamps. Behind the mask of everyday life, funny and terrible secrets will be revealed to the hero. After all, even his counselor is also the chief undertaker, the young boar is the receptacle of the soul of the local abbot, and the village fool is a true seer... And all of them are subject to the eternal transformation of destinies, the inexorable Wheel, the cycle of life and death. Only once a year does it stop, and Death takes a break. Then the members of the Funeral Brotherhood gather for their annual feast to discuss pressing issues and glorify Life - filling their stomachs with food, drinking liters of wine and deafening with table speeches! They definitely know everything about the world and man. Exquisite, rich in cultural and historical allusions, sometimes Homeric funny, Rabelaisian rich, sometimes psychologically piercing text by Matthias Henard is a real literary feast.