Raulhac, Cantal, France, September 1, 1905. In the forest surrounding his hometown, the young seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a child and then surrenders himself to the authorities.
In the North Finistère, in Brittany, it’s late October, the low season. It’s Célèste’s last day of work as a caretaker at a seaside camping ground. Just as she’s getting ready to leave, a child disappears…
Like a modern-day hermit, a man has settled on the traffic circle of a commercial zone, "where there are the most humans and the least humanity". Like Don Quixote, he fights against windmills, and like Saint Anthony, he is sometimes overcome by doubt. A mystical epic in the world of Speedy and Leclerc.
