Plessix is best known for The Wind in the Willows. This is his other series. A young single man with a small civil service position, Julien Boisvert is no adventurer. Then one day he decides to leave for Africa. There begins a long search for him: the simplest possible but also the most beautiful, that of yourself. Africa, Europe, America, each step is an opportunity for meetings and experiences that will lead to self-discovery.After his African adventure, Julien Boisvert taste the charms of an imperturbable guest house in Guernsey, until Daniel, his young neighbor, disappears. Julien's investigation leads him to cross the curious characters: a novelist, a dubious priest, ornithologists mysterious, and Molly, an Irish charm disturbing ... It will gradually that it is a return to his own childhood he undertakes. At the heart of her memories is the key to the puzzle ...Text in French.