1972: The hippie movement offered Daniel Laurent an un-hoped-for escape from boring reality and soul-crushing daily life. A 22-year-old student, Daniel Laurent was married, with a 4-year-old daughter, Valérie, whom he abandoned one November morning to head off for India and a wild, marginal lifestyle that he would never give up. For unlike his companions from the hippie era, Daniel Laurent never came back to normal life. From Amsterdam to Kashmir, via the USA, he spent nearly 30 years on the road, living out of a backpack and sleeping under the stars in even the most hostile territories and conditions.
As for his daughter, she spent those same almost 30 years facing a vacuum. Or worse, shame. The shame of being the daughter of the weirdo, the good-for-nothing, the bastard. The father whose existence she’d been trying to ignore since childhood. Yet one day, she decides to go looking for him. She catches up with him in Spain, and finds a man as monstrous as he is charismatic. An unhinged but brilliant mind, and what’s more, a spectacular, magnificent body. A father who now inspires admiration, fear and infinite desire.

An absent, drop-out father. An abandoned daughter and the story of their chaotic relationship. A tale that offers a clear-eyed view of France in the 1970’s and the impact of the hippie movement.