Plot

An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by publishers. The text is signed "Henri Pick", a Breton pizza-maker who died two years earlier.

In Brittany, a librarian decides to collect any books that have been rejected by publishers and is promptly inundated with all manner of manuscripts. Among them, a young publisher discovers what she believes to be a masterpiece, written by a certain Henri Pick. She sets out to track down the author, only to learn that he died two years earlier. According to his widow, he never read a single book or wrote anything more than a shopping list. Did he have a secret life? Shrouded in mystery, Pick's book becomes a huge hit and has surprising consequences for the literary world.—Happy_Evil_Dude

In a library in the heart of Brittany, a young editor discovers a masterpiece among a pile of rejected manuscripts. Its author, Henri Pick, is a barely-literate pizza-maker who died two years earlier. When the book becomes a bestseller, a famous literary critic convinced that it's a sham decides to investigate.

In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list. Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge bestseller, Jean-Michel Rouche (Fabrice Luchini), a skeptical, stubborn literary critic, teams up with Pick's daughter Joséphine (Camille Cottin) to unravel the mystery.