Anita Gillier

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated series of social contortions to get close to Alice, now a politically motivated factory worker.

Lissi Strack, a young lawyer, travels with her mother Silvia, the owner of an internationally renowned law firm specializing in insolvency, to the Breton port city of Cancale. When Silvia has a mishap during the trip and is hit by a car driven by the young Alain Demur, she has no choice but to return home. This gives Lissi the chance to step in for Silvia, find an investor on her own, and finally prove herself to her mother.

Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national lottery winner – though it is less than expected! Yet, they still need to collect the money and share it in equal parts. The hardest part of all will be to resume a “normal” life, filled with surprises and contradictions.

A father spends one last day with his daughter in a run-down French coastal town when he dubiously comes across a large amount of money.