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On ne présente plus Jean Le Cam, alias "le Roi Jean ", le héros du Vendée Globe, qui nous a tant ému et réjoui tout au long de son tour du monde. Son aura n'a jamais été aussi grande, sauveteur de Kevin Escoffier, navigateur au palmarès légendaire, quatrième de la course en dépit d'un bateau moins performant, Jean Le Cam est le héros que la France entière adore. Gouaille, bon sens, humour, modestie, à soixante-et-un an Jean Le Cam n'a rien perdu de sa superbe.

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry. Philip warns Anne that the forces that killed Juan will soon do the same to Gerard. Gerard is trying to rehearse Shakespeare's "Pericles", although he has no financial backing. Anne takes a part in the play to help Gerard, and to try to discover why Juan died.