Close to his 50th birthday, one day the author decides that he wants to "disappear from himself", leave everything behind and go to France for a while, to learn French, the language that he was quan young meant to his parents that of the land of freedom and that had now been pushed into a corner by the omnipresent English. And he went to Aix-en-Provence for a few months, on he found himself and the pleasure of living calmly. It thus fulfills a dream that many of us have: that of making a change in life.