Arthur Plin is a failed, obscure writer. Just before he turns fifty, a wedding invitation arrives in the mail: his ex is getting married, only he's marrying someone else! Plin can't go to the wedding - it would be too awkward. But he also can't openly refuse the invitation - everyone would gossip about him. He needs to find an excuse... and he finds one! He decides to accept every kind of invitation that writers usually receive, for second-rate conferences and indifferent events around the world.

From France to India, from Germany to Morocco, from Mexico to Japan, Plin will travel around the world to escape the shame. Only in every corner, small humiliations and indignities await him - often, not rarely, the products of his imagination alone. This is the price he has to pay in order to hide and make a fresh start in his life.

A witty comedy full of misunderstandings, hilarious surprises, and unexpected reflections on our common human fate.