Teaming up with producers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Franco-American aesthete Eugène Green (The Portugese Nun) continues his interrogation of family and high art in this philosophical, dryly funny farce pitched somewhere between coming-of-age tale and arch social satire.
Determined to find the identity of his unknown father, 15-year-old Vincent tracks down philandering, narcissistic publisher Oscar (Amalric), only to be mistaken for a writing prodigy and drawn into the pretentious world of the Parisian literary circuit.