Max was very annoying disturbances that disrupt his life for a long time: he has lost the memory of the first sixteen years of his life and at the same time it became subject to hallucinations and to sleepwalking. One day he left France and went to the USA, a country with his mother is from. And this is where the proceeds of his life which is the novel but with flashbacks to Marseille and Paris. As several authors negro, shortly after his arrival in America a French publisher offered him to be a mysterious negro selling author whom we know nothing. It has very little published under his name but he started an autobiographical novel that one day he puts on his computer via a USB key. Moreover, a Parisian journalist who seeks, among others, to unmask said mysterious successful author, puts his nose accidentally in the underground hacker via a novel and realizing that the story is autobiographical by successive overlapping she deductions that the led him to find the key to the mystery. Add to all this love, friendship, terrible tragedy, a dog, a hypnotist, and so on ... and you have a very well constructed novel that keeps you spellbound from start to finish and which reads the speed V.