8 P.M. news flash, Radio-Suisse-Romande, Tuesday, April 6: The situation in France is still making headlines. Scenes of violence are playing out in every major city. Reliable information is getting harder and harder to obtain […], but several eyewitnesses lead us to believe that a 'People’s Convention' has taken over the Palais Bourbon, where the National Assembly usually meets. […] Military patrols at the borders are keeping anyone from entering or leaving the country, and it is still impossible for anyone in France to go on line. […] The U.N. Security Council is discussing the possibility of intervening, but the U.K. and China still can’t agree about the issue of protecting the nearly one million people who have been evicted from their homes by the Armed Forces. Deportation has become the new buzzword.

Paris, the present day: A militia has overturned the government and is attacking big bosses and major media and cultural figures. Everything has been redistributed: the bourgeois from rich neighborhoods have been moved to the outskirts of the cities, to the so-called martyr projects; while factory workers, farmhands, janitors and the unemployed have moved into the most luxurious apartments in the country’s capital. Everyone has suddenly been thrown into a daily life that is diametrically opposed to their old one.

A political-fiction that intertwines the voices of the oppressed with those of the winners, interrupted by official declarations that read like a timeline of terror.

A book of political-fiction (the most stunning recent example of which is obviously Houellebecq’s Submission; in which one can also recognize elements from the film The Minister, and more)