Party at the age of 18 in Virginia to discover the USA in the mid-fifties at the time of the first swaying "lascivious" Elvis Presley, the birth of rock'n roll and beautiful American women - and girls cars - Philippe Labro written thirty years after the story of this encounter with the New World. How can a young French timid will successfully integrate into a small year at this life so different from an American campus, understand the rules of the game, but also sometimes violate adopt them in the greatest secrecy. In the South, the customs are above laws will understand him one evening the sheriff who surprised the college boy in the white nigger-town. His adventure with April, the young black teacher is unthinkable, unspeakable. It will remain secret. Molting Elizabeth will make him discover the extent of feminine masquerade and the damage it can cause in whom suddenly refuses. This novel is carried by a real blast, exciting. Youth grows every page, from discovery to initiation of wonder ratification, with irresistible force, that of America always in action, terribly arrogant, terribly straightforward. Terribly attractive.