In a Corsican village perched far from the coast, the local bar is undergoing a profound transformation under the leadership of its new managers. To everyone's surprise, these two locals have turned their backs on promising philosophy studies on the continent to, faithful to the teachings of Leibniz, transform a modest drinking establishment into "the best of all possible worlds." But soon, hell itself invites itself to the bar, reactivating very old wounds or inviting irreversible desecration of beings subjected to paltry dreams of happiness, and victims, unwittingly, of the tragic propensity of the human soul to become corrupted.
Entering, across the centuries, in resonance with the sermon by which Saint Augustine attempted, at Hippo, to console his faithful of the fragility of earthly kingdoms, Jérôme Ferrari throws, through a sumptuous and demanding writing, a merciless light on the curse which condemns men to see the worlds they build collapse and to accomplish, here below, their share of failure by ceaselessly recasting, on blood or tears, their impossible mythologies.