Ralph Meier comes to die of a cancer. He spent his last moments with his family and Mark, his own doctor and friend. Soon after, Mark was arrested by an internal hospital: medical record contains omissions and errors in diagnosis, and the order will be forwarded to council. These mistakes have they made knowingly? And if so, why? Mark tells the year that preceded the event, meeting with Meier, a renowned stage actor in the Netherlands, which will push them to attend, to spend their summer vacation together. Finally, it will dune evening terrible story that forever change his life and those of his wife and daughters. Marc has a very dark vision of his profession, he pretends sintéresser to his patients, the naked bodies the reluctance. He has a vision of seduction and love similar to that of Michel Houellebecq. And as for his vision of loyalty, family and revenge, it is organic, almost elementary. The construction of this novel is less powerful than the "dinner". But this book is distinguished by its darkness, its cynicism by striking, sometimes disturbing.