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A hilarious novel that dissects marriage, family and certitudes.On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Paul has just split up with Maud. Eleven years of marriage swept aside by one silly affair with a student. Maud has left him, but she has also left behind their two children, blue-eyed angels who excel in the art of manipulation in order to get what they want. And just when he thought things couldn't get worse, family and friends enter the fray. Among them his colleague Stephane, his brother Tom, a homosexual psychiatrist about to adopt a child with a lesbian friend, and, to make his nightmare complete: his mother, a dreadful concentration of venom and cunning, moves in.For the first time, Paul is forced to take control of his life. Overwhelmed by everything happening around him, he realizes how much his life as a faithful man was worth.