
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list... Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge best-seller, Jean- Michel Rouche, a skeptical and stubborn literary critic, teams up with Joséphine, Pick’s daughter, to unravel the mystery.

as Jean Michel Rouche

as Joséphine Pick

as Daphné Despero

as Fred Koskas

as Wendy Bellamy

as Vicomte d'Archiac

as Madeleine Pick

as Inès de Crécy

as Ludmila Blavitsky

as Magali Roze, la bibliothécaire

as Gérard Despero

as Brigitte Rouche

as Bénédicte Le Floch

as Georges-Charles d'Anthès

as Alexandre Pouchkine

as Jean-Pierre Gourvec