Le champ de bataille

The strange job of a father
"The trouble with children is that they grow up. One fine morning, without warning, they put on trainers, respond in onomatopoeia and listen to bad music (...) They cost a fortune in pimple cream, they change mood every six minutes, they grow noses. They drag themselves from the sofa to bed, making it a point of honour to remind you that you're not up to the job of being a father. It poisons you. It hates you. It's cruel when a child grows up. To top it all off, once they're over 50 metres tall, they stop thinking of you as God himself. And that's something you have to take! Now you're nothing, just a stranger programmed to ruin their lives and stop them living.

A father in his forties, locked away in the toilet, the ultimate inviolable fortress where he consults travel brochures as a way of escaping the heaviness of everyday life, with his eldest son in the throes of adolescence on one side and his couple in crisis on the other.
Jérôme Colin, journalist and novelist, Denis Laujol and Thierry Hellin, director and actor, together paint the portrait of an awkward, lost man, touchingly honest in his doubts and anxieties, funny in spite of himself, and perhaps ultimately and above all, in search of love...