Romain Gary (1914–1980) is a famous French writer, Russian by origin, a member of the Resistance, a personal friend of Charles de Gaulle, and a major diplomat. Having written almost three dozen novels, Gary became famous as the creator of the most sensational and tragic literary hoax of the 20th century, reincarnating as Emile Azhar and thus becoming the only two-time winner of the Goncourt Prize. A classic love triangle, an illusively beautiful Mediterranean landscape: Gary chooses banal settings to unfold before us a genuine human drama. The husband - the "genius of cinema", the great and monstrous Willy Boche - invites two hired killers to punish his wife, who is happy with someone else...