Bored and totally disillusioned, Michel Soler stifles in his small, hot apartment, waiting for the right moment to commit suicide, until he is offered five thousand dollars for kidnapping a young boy named Simon, an offer that plunges him into a web of intrigue
René Belletto is a French novelist and script-writer. His novels (Le Revenant, 1981; Sur la terre comme au ciel, 1982; L'Enfer, 1986) combine the suspense of the detective story with humour and sensitive characterisation.