“And Their Children After Them” is an unsurpassed novel about the formation of personality, about the cyclical nature of generations. A novel in whose pages the true spirit of France is captured. In the distant summer of 1992, when the stuffy town of Eyange was sleeping, fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin stole a canoe and went to a nudist beach. That day, fate brought them together with Steph, Anthony’s first love. This meeting became a turning point that determined their entire future lives. Four summers - four key episodes in the life of Anthony and his friends. Through the eyes of these teenagers, whose souls are overwhelmed by chaos, rage, melancholy, the desire to break out into the big world and win a better future for themselves, Mathieu shows France in the nineties, a country that held its breath.