Journalist Yvan Klébert has left his job, sick and tired of ‘scandals,’ politics and stress. What he wants is to write a novel. But Chantal Dinéro, the wife of a shady (and dangerous) businessman who has been manipulating her, contacts Yvan. In a terminal stage of cancer, she wishes to take revenge by revealing the hidden side of the declining world of politics. At the same time, Yvan’s wife, with their little girl, leaves him and he gets back, alone and without knowing why, into the world of business — with it’s usual procession of smiling ministers and dismissed, exiled, depressed and suspended judges.

Tout va bien is an atypical and audacious album, completely in the vein of ‘Poisson Pilote’ — and a total success for two beginners in this genre. It is a true story disguised as fiction (Chantal Dinéro is a real character, renamed), an autobiographical account (Denis Robert really followed Chantal) and at the same time a magnificent detective novel where the hero, though penniless, badly shaved and cynical, is as appealing as a character in a thriller who’s bent on tilting at windmills.