The three short stories that make up this collection focus on the following characters and their atypical destinies: a French-born professor working in the United States resorts to the worst in the hope of putting an end to the layoffs plaguing her department, after one of her colleagues commits suicide; a journalist dispatched to a future Brittany to document the arrival of an imminent tsunami is made to witness what the love of the ocean and its creatures can lead humans to undertake and become; a man in his fifties undergoes a spiritual metamorphosis in the wake of a pig heart transplant that paves the way for the creation of a utopian community.
