The story takes us from the dear Garrigue to the secondary school where Marcel is first ill at ease because he is a scholarship holder and because he went to the grade school (the other bourgeois pupils had probably a private tutor). A fight against a rich kid ,that augurs badly for what is to follow. (to be followed in "Le Temps des Amours" )
Axel is 24 and knocks about with his friends in Marseille. As the years pass, the sleepless nights get darker and darker, and he wonders what his life really is : at 26, are the fun years behind?
