A girl is hitchhiking on the side of a deserted road on the Ile d’Orléans, in Quebec. A car stops. The driver, Marc-André Nadeau, is out for a drive in search of ideas for a novel about his ancestors. As the hours go by, the girl becomes more and more important in Marc-André’s life, while his novel becomes less and less important, to the extent that he wonders whether he must choose between them. This is a surprising road novel where the inner progress of the characters is completely unrelated to the distance covered. Between the Ile d’Orléans and a bar on the Rue Saint-Jean, in Quebec City, the lives of both of the central characters in this novel will be transformed even more so than they would have ever thought.