Paul Kessel

Un modeste balayeur doit affronter homme d'affaires prétentieux lors d'une partie de golf aux enjeux considérables... mais il n'a qu'une semaine pour apprendre à jouer.

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

About a Swedish family during WW2 who help their friends, relatives and refugees to cross the border from Nazi occupied Norway.