Pavel Leonid Tibor Imre, Werner, Sacha fled Eastern Europe, banished and reprobate, without luggage, painful soul but a heart full of hope. White Russians, Red Russians, Leninists, Trotskyites, Stalinists, each firmly keeps his convictions. They quarrel violently in their native language and reconcile in French around the board, sharing their true course. The bistro "Le Balto" is the meeting place chosen by neighborhood youth Denfert Rochereau 'and this club rabid optimists in the back room, Michel, the narrator, from a height of twelve years, managed to slip and passed by this top group colors. Bit by bit, he traces their history. In parallel, he revives the daily life of his family. The country is recovering just the Second World War. The small French bourgeoisie of fifty-sixty years awakens for consumption. She starts to taste the credit dreaming of cars and washing machines as the War of Algeria permeates all minds. Teens head elsewhere in rock'n'roll and football matches! A great popular novel that meticulously recreates an era: that of "Tante Yvonne" of "Umbrellas of Cherbourg", the "cold war". A time and corseted graduate, carrier of May 68 maelstrom.
